High Scale Farmhouse With Attached Stable To West And Barn To East

High Scale Farmhouse, with an attached stable to the west and a barn to the east, likely dates to the 16th century or earlier 17th century, with significant remodeling and enlargement in the mid-18th century. Alterations have occurred subsequently. The farmhouse is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble, with quoins, the house walls having a rough, rendered finish ("slobbered"), and the barn featuring two courses of through-stones. All have stone slate roofs. The building is arranged linearly along a north-east/south-west axis, facing east. The original two-bay farmhouse and one-bay stable were built as a single unit, with a through-passage between them. A continuous outshut extends along the rear of the house, and the barn is attached to the east end.

The main front, featuring two storeys and two windows, is almost symmetrical. A continuous stone slate drip course runs over the ground floor, rising to form a square-headed doorway in the center. There are two square windows at ground floor with altered glazing, an oblong 12-pane fixed window to the left at the first floor, and a small rectangular 9-pane fixed window to the right. A flight of external stone steps provides access to a porch for the through-passage doorway and also serves a loft entrance above. A square chimney is positioned on the ridge at the junction with the stable, and another is located at the junction with the barn (the former probably corbelled inside the stable loft). The west gable of the stable has a small window, a drip-band, and a course of through-stones. The rear wall of the stable includes a through-passage doorway against the angle of the outshut (evidence remains of a former lean-to porch in this angle) and a single-light window to the right. The rear wall of the outshut has two small rectangular windows at ground floor and three above, symmetrically arranged. The attached barn, comprising five bays, has through-stones laid in two levels, and a wide doorway to the second bay on its south side. The rear wall of the barn features a segmental-headed wagon doorway with rubble voussoirs and a drip-band in the center, and two small square openings to the right.

The interior of the farmhouse now lacks an upper floor, but the left-hand portion of the house contains an 18th-century fireplace with a corbelled lintel, a recessed spice cupboard to the left, and a former doorway to the right (leading to the through-passage) that has been adapted as a cupboard with stone shelves. A doorway in the rear right corner leads to a spiral stone staircase. A lateral partition wall includes a recess for a former court cupboard. The parlor to the right has a small rectangular 18th-century fireplace with moulded imposts. The roof over the housepart retains a principal-rafter roof truss. The through-passage has a doorway to the stable at its south end and a blocked doorway to the house at its north end.

This is a rare survival of a through-passage longhouse plan, though altered, it remains recognizable. It’s comparable to Ingheads and Fletchers Farm (Dent CP), the latter being a more heavily altered example.