East Scale Farmhouse with Outbuilding Attached to West

East Scale Farmhouse, along with its attached outbuilding to the west, is a derelict farmhouse and associated structures, likely dating from the 17th century or earlier, with significant alterations made in the mid-18th century. A large outbuilding was added between these two phases. The building is constructed from watershot coursed sandstone rubble, featuring quoins at the east end and two intermittent courses of through-stones at the first floor, topped with a stone slate roof.

The farmhouse has a single-depth, two-unit plan oriented east-west and faces south, with a large outbuilding at the west end and a lean-to cart-shed added at the east end. The exterior consists of two storeys and three windows, arranged symmetrically. It has a plinth and a stone slate drip-course over the ground floor. The central square-headed doorway has a board door, flanked by two square windows at ground floor level, one of which is missing joinery and the other glazing. Above, there are three small rectangular sash windows, all with damaged joinery and lacking glazing. The gable chimneys are both corbelled, and the west gable wall displays a steep gable line from the original single-storey house.

The roofless outbuilding at the west end, which may have been a house, is of similar size and height, featuring two widely separated windows, a central doorway, and two rectangular windows on each floor, with the upper ones being slightly smaller. All these openings have monolith lintels and are currently void. At the rear, the house shows through-stones on three levels, with a small chamfered one-light window to the left at ground floor and a similar stair-window in the centre. There is an L-shaped vertical joint with quoining to the outbuilding, indicating it was constructed before the house was raised.

Inside, visible through the window, there is a lateral stone partition wall to the right of the doorway and a board partition to the left. The house part to the left features a chamfered beam, exposed joists, and a fireplace with a corbelled lintel. The farmhouse forms a group with West Scale, located approximately 100 meters to the north, and with the bridge over Grisdale Beck, about 50 meters to the east.