Scar Top House

Scar Top House is a house dating from the mid to late 17th century, with later additions and restoration around 1980. It is constructed from coursed squared gritstone and rubble, topped with a graduated stone slate roof and features quoins. The building has two storeys, originally consisting of one bay, with an added bay to the left and two bays, along with a projecting wing likely from the 20th century, to the right.

The original house has a 20th-century board door set in a chamfered surround with a shallow triangular head, alongside a restored four-light recessed mullion window to the right, both beneath a continuous hoodmould. Above the door is a narrow round-headed chamfered window, and to the right is a tall three-light mullioned window in a reused 17th-century surround. In the left bay, there is a board door in a chamfered quoined surround, a small square chamfered window to the right, and a loading door with long and short quoins that has been reduced to a 20th-century window above. The right bay features a restored four-light recessed chamfered mullion window on the ground floor, and two two-light mullioned windows with reused 17th-century stonework above. The projecting bay on the far right has a doorway with chamfered quoined jambs and a restored lintel. All windows are from the 20th century, except for a narrow round-headed window on the first floor of the left return. The main range and wing have bulbous kneelers and gable copings, and there is a large stack with a crenellated cornice at the ridge opposite the 17th-century entrance.

Inside, the front door leads into a small lobby, with a doorway to the right that opens into the living room. The fireplace in this room features a cambered arched lintel supported by massive jamb stones, with the left jamb stones tied to the jamb of the lobby doorway. Scar Top House is a remote and rare example of a single-bay 17th-century building.