Raw Ridding Farmhouse And Attached Barn

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SD68NE DENTDALE 162-1/10/135 (North side) 14/06/84 Raw Ridding Farmhouse and attached barn (Formerly Listed as: DENTDALE Raw Ridding)

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Farmhouse, with attached barn; now house and store. Late C17 or early C18; enlarged in mid to later C18; recently refurbished. Sandstone rubble, the house of random rubble with large quoins, the front painted white, and the barn of roughly-coursed rubble, with a stone slate roof over the whole. The house has a cruciform plan, formed by a single-depth 2-unit main range on an east-west axis facing south with a large porch at the front and a broad rear wing to the centre (plus a lean-to in the west angle with this). EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 1:1:1 windows, with a stone slate drip-course interrupted (or covered) in the centre by a large 2-storey gabled porch. This has a square-headed outer doorway and a square window at 1st floor (either inserted or with altered glazing). To the left are 2 similar windows at ground floor and another above the first of these; to the right is an inserted doorway close to the porch, and further right a 2-light casement and another at 1st floor above it. All these windows now have altered glazing. Large square extruded chimney at left gable; small ridge chimney at junction with barn to right. Barn continued to right has a segmental-headed wagon doorway to the 2nd bay, with rubble voussoirs and stone slate dripband, window and doorway to left of this, single-storey wing to right. Rear: broad gabled service wing with 3 irregularly disposed windows (including a cross-window to the staircase) and a blocked 1-light window to the right; lean-to filling the west angle, with a large rectangular chimney. INTERIOR: housepart to left has 2 large lateral beams with exposed joists, and large rectangular stone fireplace; open-well staircase in rear wing with closed string, square newels, turned balusters and deep moulded handrail; fielded panel partitioning to landing, including a door to the room at the north-east corner of the rear wing, which has matching panelling to the ceiling.

Listing NGR: SD6927588784