Low House And Barn Attached To Rear

GARSDALE

SD78NW HAWES ROAD 162-1/11/239 (North side) 14/06/84 Low House and barn attached to rear (Formerly Listed as: HAWES ROAD Low House, barn to SW and outbuilding fronting road to S of barn)

GV II

Farmhouse with added cottage, now all one; with barn attached to rear. Probably mid to later C17 (court-cupboard 1654) and cottage added probably in earlier C19; altered. Roughly coursed slobbered rubble, graduated slate roof. Single-depth 2-unit plan on east-west axis facing south, with 1-unit addition at east end and added outshut to whole range; barn attached to rear of this. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 2:2 windows. The main range has a large single-storey gabled porch offset left, with a square-headed doorway offset right and 3 tiers of pigeon holes in the gable, and a row of similar pigeon holes in the wall above the porch; a small 16-pane sash on each floor to the left, a large square 16-pane sash to the right at ground floor and a smaller 16-pane sash above this. The added bay to the right has a doorway flanked by 6-pane sashes on both floors. Large ridge chimney at junction, and gable chimneys at both ends. At the west corner of the house is a passage under a short link to the former stable (qv). Rear outshut, with catslide roof, projects at west end and has altered windows and a tall chimney at the rear with a cylindrical shaft. Long barn attached to rear wing has slit breathers, various doorways. INTERIOR: the housepart in the 2nd bay contains a very large C18 fireplace with corbelled lintel and moulded cornice, containing an ogee-arched sooker stone (now mostly covered by C20 range installed in front of it), and flanked by spice cupboards, that to the left with a pair of small shaped fielded-panel doors and a drawer above with C17 arcaded front, and that to right with one square fielded panel. The ground-floor room of the added east bay contains a large C19 stone fireplace (backing onto the other) containing a cast-iron oven-and-boiler range; and attached to the opposite (east) wall is a very fine court cupboard with butterfly hinges to the doors, carved decoration including lozenges and scrollwork, and a set-back top stage with oversailing frieze lettered "HLI 1654". [The C18 fireplace and the court cupboard are illustrated in M. Hartley and J. Ingilby "Life and Traditions in the Yorkshire Dales, (1968 and 1989).] Forms group with former stable attached to south-west corner (qv), garden shelter approx. 50m south-west (qv) and barn on east side of entrance drive (qv).

Listing NGR: SD7374989658