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

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SD79SE HAWES ROAD 162-1/8/233 (South side (off)) High Scale Farmhouse with attached stable to west and barn to east

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Farmhouse with integral stable and added barn, now used as store. Probably C16 or earlier C17, remodelled and enlarged in mid C18; altered. Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, the house slobbered and the barn with 2 courses of through-stones, with stone slate roofs. Linear plan on north-east/south-west axis, facing south-east (hereinafter "east-west facing south"): the 2-bay house and 1-bay stable in one build with a through-passage between them, but the house with a continuous full-height outshut added to the rear, and the barn attached at the east end. EXTERIOR: the main range, 2 storeys and 2 windows, the domestic portion almost symmetrical, has an almost continuous stone slate drip-course over the ground floor pitched up over a square-headed doorway in the centre; 2 square windows at ground floor with altered glazing, an oblong 12-pane fixed window to the left at 1st floor and a small rectangular 9-pane fixed window to the right. To the left a flight of external steps forms a porch to the through-passage doorway and serves a loft doorway above. Square chimney on ridge at junction with stable, and another at junction with added barn (the former probably corbelled inside the stable loft). The west gable has a small window to the stable, a drip-band and a course of through-stones. The rear wall of the stable has a through-passage doorway against the angle of the outshut (with remains of a former lean-to porch in this angle) and a 1-light window to the right. The rear wall of the outshut has 2 small rectangular windows at ground floor and 3 above, symmetrically arranged. The attached barn, 5 bays, has through-stones on 2 levels, and a wide doorway to the 2nd bay on the south side; its rear wall has a segmental-headed wagon doorway in the centre with rubble voussoirs and a drip-band, and 2 small square openings to the right. INTERIOR: house now lacks upper floor, but housepart to left has C18 fireplace with corbelled lintel, spice-cupboard recess to left and former doorway to right (to through-passage) adapted as cupboard with stone shelves; doorway in rear right corner leading to spiral stone staircase; lateral partition wall has recess for former court-cupboard; parlour to right has small rectangular C18 fireplace with moulded imposts. Principal-rafter roof truss over housepart. Through-passage has doorway to stable at south end and blocked doorway to house at north end. HISTORICAL NOTE: rare survival of through-passage longhouse plan, altered but still recognisable; to be compared with Ingheads (qv); and with Fletchers Farm (Dent CP, qv), another possible example but much more heavily altered.

Listing NGR: SD7836291360