Thrush Gill And Attached Barns To East And West

GARSDALE

SD78NW HAWES ROAD 162-1/11/260 (North side) 14/06/84 Thrush Gill and attached barns to east and west

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Farmhouse with attached barns. Probably early C18; altered. Coursed rubble with quoins and some through-stones, the house white-washed; slate roof on 2 levels. Single-depth 2-unit plan on east-west axis facing south, with a short rear wing to the centre, a stable and barn attached at the west end, and a small shippon or store continued at the east end. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and 3 windows, with a plinth and a stone slate drip-band over the ground floor interrupted in the centre by a tall single-storey gabled porch. This has a square-headed doorway and a slate roof which has been slightly lowered (pitched water-tabling of formerly steeper roof on wall above), small side benches, a peep-window above that on the right, and an inner board door. The ground floor has a square 6-pane sash to the left and a 6-pane fire-window to the left of that; and a square 12-pane fixed window and a 6-pane sash to the right. The upper floor has a small rectangular 4-pane window and a 9-pane window to the left, a 6-pane sash to the right. Corbelled chimney at junction with stable to left, ridge chimney at junction with shippon to right. Narrow 1-bay stable attached to left with external steps over doorway and loft doorway above (deck missing); lower 2-storey barn continued to left with segmental-headed wagon doorway offset right, a small window each side, drip-course and 2 windows above; doorway on lower level at left end, and large lean-to shippon added to the west gable. One-bay shippon at east end with doorway abutting junction with house. Rear: small blocked fire-window to main range; short gabled wing with narrow stair-window. INTERIOR: 4 lateral beams, the 1st formerly a smokehood bressumer, the 3rd with part of an original wooden lateral partition towards the rear (new partition inserted under front half of 4th beam); blocked fire-window opening in rear left corner of housepart, and dog-legged stone staircase off rear right corner; pantry with stone shelves in rear wing.

Listing NGR: SD7460089808