Dale Foot

Dale Foot is a farmhouse dated 1640, built for George Fryer. It features a rubble construction and a stone slate roof, with a T-shaped plan and two storeys. The building has four first-floor windows and a rear stair turret. The rough quoins add to its character. On the ground floor, between the third and fourth first-floor windows, there is a part-glazed board door set in a straight-headed quoined chamfered surround, with a panel above inscribed "GFC 1640" and decorative motifs. A blocked doorway is located between the first and second bays. The window surrounds display mason's marks, and in the second bay, there are fire windows: a chamfered straight-headed window on the ground floor and a chamfered round-headed window with a wooden bar on the first floor. The other windows are double-chamfered mullion windows, typically of three lights, except for the ground floor of the third bay, which has four lights. These windows feature a continuous ground-floor drip mould that steps up over the doorway. The building has stacks at both ends and one on the ridge over the second bay. At the rear, there is a chamfered straight-headed single-light window in the stair turret. The left return of the stair turret angles across to the rear wall of the house at first-floor level and contains a blocked matching window. To the left of the house, there is a two-light chamfered mullion window on the ground floor and a single light on the first floor. Inside, the ground-floor room to the left of the door has a large fireplace with chamfered ashlar jambs, which bear mason's marks, supporting a curved timber beam set within earlier chamfered jambs. To the right of the fireplace, there is a round-arched chamfered doorway that leads to a stone spiral stair in the turret.