Dale Foot

BISHOPDALE B 6160 SD 98 SE (south-east side, off) 5/3 Dale Foot 25.3.69 - II

Farmhouse. Dated 1640. For George Fryer. Rubble, stone slate roof. T- shaped plan, 2 storeys, 4 first-floor windows, with rear stair turret. Rough quoins. On ground floor between third and fourth first-floor windows, part-glazed board door in straight-headed quoined chamfered surround with panel above inscribed "GFC 1640" with decorative motifs. Blocked doorway between first and second bays. Window surrounds have mason's marks. In second bay, fire windows: chamfered straight-headed on ground floor; chamfered round-headed with wooden bar on first floor. Double-chamfered mullion windows elsewhere, of 3 lights except for 4 lights in third bay on ground floor, and with continuous ground-floor dripmould, stepped up over doorway. Stacks at ends and to ridge over second bay. Rear: chamfered straight-headed single-light window in stair turret. Left return of stair turret angled across to rear wall of house at first-floor level and contains blocked matching window. House, to left: 2-light chamfered mullion window on ground floor; single light on first floor. Interior: in ground-floor room to left of door, large fireplace with chamfered ashlar jambs with mason's marks supporting curved timber beam, set within earlier chamfered jambs, and to its right, round-arched chamfered doorway giving access to stone spiral stair in turret.

Listing NGR: SD9793684205