Hillside Farmhouse With Attached Outbuildings

SE 08 NE 3/102 13.2.67

MELMERBY MELMERBY Hillside Farmhouse with attached outbuildings

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Farmhouse with attached outbuildings. Mid - late C17 with later extensions to right. Rubble, stone slate roofs. 2 storeys, 8 first-floor windows, with added outshut behind first 2 bays, Original house, first bay: stepped plinth with small cellar-like window opening. Quoins to left. To right, board door in chamfered ashlar surround. Double-chamfered mullion windows, of 4 lights with central king mullion on ground floor, of 3 lights on first floor. Ashlar coping to left. Chimney over door. Second to sixth bays: quoins to right. Ground floor, from left: 12-pane window with slab sill and lintel; 6-pane sash window; board C20 stable door to kitchen with deep lintel; board door to cow byre; 6-pane casement window with slab sill and lintel. First floor, from left: 6-pane sash window with slab sill and lintel; 6-pane sash window; three C20 sash windows with slab sills and lintels. Seventh and eighth bays: quoins to right. Ground floor: board doors to garage, formerly cart-shed, in segmental-arched opening; C20 slatted door below deep lintel to former stable. First floor: 6-pane window below deep lintel; small single-light window with slab lintel. Left return: house: watershot stonework, ground-floor 3-light double-chamfered mullion window, probably an insertion; outshut: chamfered single-light window. Right return: stable: stone steps up to first-floor board door; outshut: on each floor a chamfered single-light window, the jambs continuous to both windows. Interior: in ground-floor room to extreme left, inglenook fireplace with ends of original bressumer cut off to form corbels and later beam inserted above; bread oven to left, salt box to rear, and inserted C18 ashlar fireplace with richly-moulded corbels over pilaster-like jambs; stop- chamfered beams. In outshut, stone staircase of twisting open well plan, possibly originally external; in first-floor room to extreme left, C18 ashlar moulded fireplace, found in garden by previous owner, and possibly removed from dining room in second bay, having been installed when parlour formed there. First floor now continuous over entire range, with C19 open roof trusses over third to sixth bays, and C19 king-post truss over seventh and eighth bays. North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report No 692.

Listing NGR: SE0766685416