Beck Farmhouse And Attached Barn

SEDBERGH

SD69NW HOWGILL LANE, Howgill 162-1/1/350 (East side (off)) Beck Farmhouse and attached barn

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Farmhouse and attached barn. Probably late C17 or early C18; altered. House of white-painted rubble (side and rear unpainted), slate roof. L-plan formed by 2-unit single-depth house on north-south axis facing west, with added lean-to outshut to rear, and barn as projecting north-west wing. EXTERIOR: house: 2 storeys and attic, 4 windows (the 4th blocked). The ground floor has a square-headed doorway offset left, protected by a gabled C20 wooden and glazed porch, a square window to the left, and an oblong 2-light window and a narrow rectangular 1-light window to the right, all these windows with altered glazing; the 1st floor has 3 square windows with altered glazing and a small blocked 1-light window with chamfered reveal to the right. A detectable change in the masonry above the 1st-floor windows suggests that the eaves may have been raised. Gable chimneys, that to the right short, square and corbelled out, with 2 prominent stone-slate courses carried round. This chimney and the 1-light windows to the right on each floor below it (which appear to have been fire-windows), indicating that the house was built with a firehood, are the external features which suggest a late C17 or early C18 date. Left gable covered by barn; right-hand gable wall has small attic windows flanking the chimney. Barn: of slobbered random rubble, has doorway offset right, 2 windows to the left and one to the right, all with rubble voussoirs. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD6339496692