Low Hall

SD 9672-9772 KETTLEWELL WITH STARBOTTON KETTLEWELL

21/101 Low Hall

GV II

House. Dated 1849; street frontage early-mid C18. Coursed limestone rubble, ashlar dressings, graduated stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Quoins. South facade to rear: central half-glazed 4-panel door in pilastered doorcase; plain lintel with cornice and stone plaque with, in relief,"T. l849.I". Flanking and first-floor sashes with glazing bars in plain stone surrounds, the sills supported by moulded brackets. Paired stone gutter brackets, shaped kneelers, gable coping, corniced stacks to left gable and between bays 2 and 3; banded stack to right gable. Street facade: patchy rendering; a tall central stair window, of 6 x 3 fixed panes above a transom, and a sash with glazing bars below; similar sashes with glazing bars to first floor left and right; all in architraves; C20 window in similar architrave to ground floor left. 2-light recessed and chamfered mullion windows to ground floor, right. The architrave of the first-floor right-hand window is carried round to the left return of the house, suggesting a window set round the corner of the building; the architraves have the remains of transoms. Raised eaves with similar detailing as south front. Ashlar corniced stack at eaves left of centre. Right return: doorway to right of centre; blocked round-headed window to ground floor, left. Interior: the side entrance opens into a lobby which leads into the north room (to road), a former kitchen with large fireplace with hollow moulded cornice, chamfered cross beam, and the site of a well. The room beyond is a former dairy with stone shelves (not seen at resurvey). The ground floor south rooms have high ceilings appropriate to their mid C19 date; there is a central entrance hall and a plain staircase.

Listing NGR: SD9690872295