Acre Farmhouse And Attached Farm Buildings At East And West Ends

Acre Farmhouse is a farmhouse with attached farm buildings, dating probably from an earlier period but with a porch dated 1711. It is situated in Dentdale. The original farmhouse is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble, with a later addition of similar rubble, both with quoins, and has a stone slate roof. The building has a linear plan along an east-west axis, facing south, comprising a single-depth two-unit main range with a porch to the front and a wing to the rear, a single-unit dwelling added to the east end, and later outbuildings added to both ends.

The two-window range has a drip-course over the ground floor. A wide, offset, lean-to porch is located to the left of centre, featuring a doorway with a shaped lintel bearing the emblem of a stylized fleur-de-lys and the letters “D / T B” and “1711”. To the left of the porch, the ground floor has a round-headed one-light fire-window with decorated spandrels and a two-light double-chamfered mullioned window, connected by two inserted lights forming an irregular five-light window. To the right are similar mullioned windows of three and two lights (the latter lacking its mullion). The first floor has a similar blocked round-headed window to the left and three two-light windows, all without mullions. The addition to the right has a doorway, a two-light flush-mullion window and a one-light window at ground floor, all with hoodmoulds, and two small one-light windows above. Square chimneys stand on the ridge - one at each former gable and one at the junction. Narrow outbuildings are present at each end, with a doorway next to the junction. The rear of the building has small fire-windows to each portion, and a gabled wing to the centre of the main range with through-stones and small windows.

Inside, a stone lateral partition wall divides the bays of the main range. Two chamfered lateral beams are present in the room to the right; the second was formerly a smokehood bressumer, and the first has joists tenoned into its west side only, with an intervening space now ceiled, which formerly bridged the beams and suggests a previously open housepart with a loft at the west end.