Town Head Farmhouse

GRASSINGTON TOWN HEAD SE 0064-0164 (east side) 8/14 Town Head Farmhouse (formerly listed as Town Head Farm) 6.10.69 II Farmhouse. Mid C17, reroofed mid-late C19. Coursed gritstone, grey slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays with 2-storey porch between bays 1 and 2 and an added bay to left. Quoins. Porch: board door in chamfered quoined surround, the lintel arch possibly recut. Recessed chamfered mullion windows throughout of 3 (mullions repositioned), 5 and 5 lights to ground floor under a continuous dripmould; and of 4, 3 with hoodmould (to porch), 4 and 4 lights to first floor. Gable coping right; ridge stack above porch and to each end. Eaves decorated with plaster and pebbles. Added bay to left: C20 double doors, square loading door above gable coping left. Left return: blocked small chamfered opening to ground floor, blocked arch to gable. Interior of house not inspected at resurvey but reported to contain an arched fireplace. The house is one of those built within 2 generations of the sale of freeholds in the village by the Earl of Cumberland, George Clifford in 1604. The left bay may be a contemporary farm building but quoins define the original house. The decorated band below the eaves, with chevron and semicircle motifs, is an unusual feature and probably dates from the reroofing. Formerly known as Rathmell's farm, it belongs to the Trustees of the Fountaine Hospital in Linton. I. Goldthorpe, One Hundred Things to see on a walk through Grassington, 1988, (booklet).

Listing NGR: SE0014764496