Archer'S Hall

SEDBERGH

SD6591 MILLTHROP 162-1/20/319 Archer's Hall 16/03/54

GV II*

Farmhouse. Dated 1681 on gable of rear wing, and on spice cupboard in housepart; altered. Mixed random rubble, graduated slate roof. T-plan formed by a single-depth 3-unit range on approx. north-south axis, of which the south and centre bays comprise the house and the north bay appears to have served some service function, with a porch offset left of centre of the east front of the house and a service wing to the rear of the 2nd bay. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 2:1 windows. The 2-storey gabled porch has a slightly-arched outer doorway with a moulded surround and a lintel with hoodmould, a C20 inner door, and a 2-light double-chamfered mullioned window at 1st floor with cavetto mullion and a hoodmould; its north side has a slanted peephole at ground floor and a 1-light window above. The flanking windows on both floors are all C19 casements, but at 1st floor of the 3rd bay is a 2-light mullioned window like that in the porch. Gable chimney to left, ridge chimney at junction of 2nd and 3rd bays. Rear: the 3rd bay has only a wide doorway with timber lintel; the rear wing has in its north side a square-headed doorway with an old studded double-layered door furnished with a wrought-iron knocker inscribed "R HI 1681", a 2-light mullioned window to the right and two 3-light windows above, all double-chamfered with cavetto mullions, and in its west gable two small 1-light attic windows with diamond-leaded glazing, and above and between these a square datestone lettered "H / R I / 1681" (=Richard and Isabella Hebblethwaite). INTERIOR: housepart in 2nd bay has C19 ceiling beam in position of former firehood bressumer, and set in the wall below this a carved spice cupboard (presumably re-located) lettered "1681 / H / R I"; in line with the front door is a straight C19 staircase enclosed on 3 sides at 1st floor by C17 muntin-and-rail panelled partitions; in the north side of this is a similarly panelled door, and to the rear of this another door of muntin-and-plank form; the chamber over the housepart has similar muntin-and-rail panelling forming a screen to a former smokehood. Forms a group with associated barn to north (qv) on opposite side of lane, and with small barn to north (qv).

Listing NGR: SD6585791111