New House

SD 96 SW MALHAM MOOR SMEARBOTTOMS LANE (east side, off)

18/137 New House

• II

Farmhouse and attached byre. Mid-late C17 with C18 alterations. Gritstone rubble, graduated stone slate roof. 2-storey, 2-bay house with rear outshut and added central single-storey porch, with a 2-storey byre to left. Quoins. House: board door to gabled porch with quoined jambs and plain lintel, a 3-light flat-faced mullion window to left, one mullion removed; a 4-pane sash in a large opening with moulded lintel to right. Two 2-light recessed chamfered mullion windows to first floor. Byre: a board door with ventilation grille to right, in an alternate quoined surround, the lintel having a shallow triangular head under a straight chamfer; a loading door with plain sill and lintel to first floor, far left. A small recessed chamfered window with 4-pane frame to ground floor centre. A straight joint with quoins at first floor height between house and byre. Gable copings, end stacks to house, the left stack just outside the line of the quoins. Rear: 2-light recessed chamfered mullion windows to outshut. Interior: not inspected in detail at resurvey. The living room left of the porch has a large fireplace with plain C18 stone surround and a C19 cast- iron range; the stack is external and projects into the barn. The house is a good example of a C17 vernacular building, little altered. It probably had a hearth-passage plan originally, the door (now to the byre) opening into an unheated room. The porch entrance appears to be additional, suggesting an early C18 alteration which coincides with the fireplace and therefore the partition wall between house and byre - the quoins between the two elements are only at the first floor, implying that the original house was single storey. Tile first-floor loading door is also C18 in style. The house is very similar to Middle House (q.v.)

Listing NGR: SD9325264289