Acre Farmhouse And Attached Farm Buildings At East And West Ends

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SD78NW DENTDALE 162-1/11/12 (North side) 16/03/54 Acre Farmhouse and attached farm buildings at east and west ends (Formerly Listed as: DENTDALE Acre & farm buildings adjoining to east & west & lying to the south)

GV II

Farmhouse with added house, now integrated. Dated 1711 on porch, but probably earlier. The earlier portion is of coursed sandstone rubble, the addition of coursed rubble, both with quoins; stone slate roof. Linear plan on east-west axis, facing south: a single-depth 2-unit main range with a porch to the front and a wing to the rear (both probably added), a 1-unit dwelling added to the east end of this, and later outbuildings added to both ends. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 4+2 windows. The 4-window range has a drip-course over the ground floor, interrupted by a wide lean-to porch offset left of centre which has in its east side a doorway with a shaped lintel with stylised fleur-de-lys in the centre and panels to left and right with raised lettering "D / T B" and "1711", and a stone slate hoodmould. To the left the ground floor has a round-headed 1-light fire-window, with decorated spandrels and a 2-light double-chamfered mullioned window, linked by 2 inserted lights (forming an irregular 5-light window); and to the right similar mullioned windows of 3 and 2 lights (the latter lacking the mullion). The 1st floor has a similar round-headed window to the left, now blocked, and three 2-light windows all lacking the mullion. The addition to the right has a doorway at the junction, a 2-light flush-mullion window and a 1-light window at ground floor, both with hoodmoulds, and 2 small 1-light windows above. Square chimneys on the ridge: one at each former gable and one at the junction. Narrow outbuildings at each end, each with a doorway next to the junction. Rear: small fire-window to each portion; gabled wing to centre of main range, with through-stones and small windows. INTERIOR: stone lateral partition wall between bays of main range; 2 chamfered lateral beams in room to right, the 2nd formerly a smokehood bressumer, the 1st with joists tenoned into on its west side only and the space between them (now ceiled) formerly bridged by later joists laid on top of the beams: suggesting a formerly open housepart with a loft at the west end (cf. Hud's House, qv).

Listing NGR: SD7413486817