Dam Side House With Forecourt Railings And Gates And Attached Barn To Right

SD 9672-9772 21/104 10.9.54

KETTLEWELL WITH STARBOTTON KETTLEWELL Dam Side House with forecourt railings and gates and attached barn to right

GV II

House, railings, gate and barn. House dated 1815 with remains of earlier house dated 1681, the railings probably 1815, and attached barn probably late C18. Rubble walls, whitewashed, with gritstone dressings and graduated stone slate roofs; iron railings. House of 2 storeys and 2 bays with a slightly recessed earlier bay to left. Quoins. Central 6-panel door, the top 2 panels glazed, in ashlar surround with corniced lintel inscribed " W.D.B 1815". Flanking 20-pane sashes to ground and first floor, in slightly projecting sawn stone surrounds. Bay to left: a 4-panel door to right, the lower half repaired, in surround with sawn stone jambs and large lintel with recessed panel and lettering in relief, "LB 1681". Windows to ground and first-floor, left, as main range; stone gutter brackets; shaped kneelers, gable copings, corniced ashlar end stacks and between left and centre bays. Interior: the main entrance opens into a narrow hall with, at the end,a fine staircase of 2 straight flights, having finely turned column on vase knopped balusters. A rear bedroom, right, has paired cupboard beds of C17 origin, probably repaired and reset in the early C19. Each cupboard has double doors with hinges and an openwork grille above; the left cupboard retains its bed with mattress and a panelled "ceiling". Railings and walling to front: the low rubble wall has a ridged coping and closely set wavy rails, all lath pointed finials. Gate piers of sawn sandstone; the gate has a band of zig-zags and circles below the dogbar, wavy rail above. Barn: projecting forward of the line of the house to right, it is of 4 bays, bays 1,2 and 4 projecting under a continuous cat-slide roof forming a recessed entrance porch to bay 3. Board doors with strap hinges to cart entrance; the entrance to bay 2 on left side of porch; a board door with chamfered quoined jambs and slight lintel; a loading door above with plain lintel and jambs. Entrance to bay 4 on right of porch: board door, chamfered quoined jambs and large lintel. Road frontage: blocked byre door far left, with inserted square window and flat hood. Small square pitching doors to first floor, to left and to right of porch, the jambs chamfered. Stone gutter brackets. Right return: byre door with tie-stone jambs far left, loading door in quoined surround above and to right; external steps.

Listing NGR: SD9712972367