Castlehaw Farmhouse

SEDBERGH

SD6692 CASTLEHAW LANE 162-1/17/276 (East side) 16/03/54 Castlehaw Farmhouse (Formerly Listed as: CASTLEHAW LANE Castlehaw Farmhouse and barns to south-east)

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Dated 1701 on porch; altered and recently radically renovated. Mixed random rubble with slobbered pointing, sandstone quoins and stone slate roof. L-plan formed by a single-depth 2-unit main range with a service wing to the rear of the 2nd unit (probably added at an early date) and a staircase outshut in the angle with this. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic, 6 windows, with stone slate bands over both floors (the upper with returned ends). The ground floor has a gabled porch offset right of centre, with a moulded Tudor-arched opening, lintel with raised lettering "W / 17 R M 01", pigeon holes above this, kneelers (no coping), a small peephole in each side, inner side benches and a board door with strap hinges; three 2-light mullioned windows to the left, and a 3-light and a 2-light mullioned window to the right. The 1st floor has five 2-light windows and a 1-light window at the right-hand end. All these windows have renewed surrounds and mullions except that to the left of the porch and both to the right at ground floor, which have chamfered reveals and cavetto mullions. Rebuilt gable chimneys. The right-hand gable wall has a shallow projection to the centre of the ground floor, and 2 small attic windows. The rear wing is set back, has a lean-to porch in the angle, above this the wall is canted in at the junction to expose a 1-light window in the rear wall of the main range; otherwise, this wing has 2 altered windows at ground floor, a chamfered 1-light window above, and its rear gable has a chimney corbelled from 1st floor. INTERIOR: contemporary panelled partitioning at 1st floor of main range and across rear wall of wing (probably to screen former smokehood), removed during restoration and re-instated: but it is not known if it is now in the original positions. Similar partitioning has recently been inserted at ground floor. Forms a group with associated barn to south-east (qv).

Listing NGR: SD6622792468