Town Head Farmhouse And Attached Outbuilding To South-West

NEWBIGGIN VILLAGE STREET SD 9885-9985 (north side) 14/106 Town Head Farmhouse and attached outbuilding to south-west 25.3.69 (formerly listed as Town End Farmhouse) GV II

Farmhouse and attached outbuilding. House dated 1690, with later alterations; outbuilding of 2 builds, one nearest house probably contemporary with house, addition perhaps C18. Rubble; stone and Welsh slate roofs. 2 storeys. House: T-shaped, with contemporary rear wing. 2 first-floor windows. Central single-storey gabled porch, formerly of 2 storeys. Ashlar quoined triangular-headed doorway with richly-moulded arris; decorative motifs on spandrels; on lintel, recessed panel with raised characters "REH" "1690" and decorative motifs; shaped kneelers, moulded coping. C20 inner glazed door. Ground-floor windows: C20 segmental bow window to left of porch; immediately to right of porch, blocked fire window with stepped soffit to lintel; C20 casement in surround of 2-light double- chamfered mullion window to right. First floor: sash windows with glazing bars with slab sills and lintels; part of blocked mullion window near second window. Shaped kneeler to right; copings, moulded to right. Welsh slate roof. End stacks, corbelled out from gable and with triangular slate pot. Outbuilding to left: 2 first-floor windows. Ground-floor 4-light double- chamfered mullion window with central king mullion, the first 2 lights blocked and the third mullion missing to form a part-shuttered opening. First floor: blocked 2-light double-chamfered mullion window; C20 casement window in surround of 2-light double-chamfered mullion window. Outbuilding further left: through stones; no openings. Outbuildings have stone slate roof. Rear of house: part surround of ground-floor 2-light double-chamfered mullion window. Rear of middle outbuilding: ground-floor blocked window, formerly of 2 lights, with arched heads to lights in lintel. Rear of wing: 2 blocked single-light chamfered windows on first floor; gable stack. Right (east) return of wing: to right, blocked doorway possibly formerly to staircase beside chimney breast; on ground floor, part of surround of double-chamfered mullion window; on first floor, blocked 2-light double- chamfered mullion window and C20 casement window in surround of 2-light double-chamfered mullion window. North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report No 177.

Listing NGR: SD9959685517