East Banks Farmhouse

DENT

SD7086 DENTDALE 162-1/25/52 (South side) East Banks Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. Late C17 or early C18; altered. Slobbered rubble with large quoins, stone slate roof. Broad T-plan formed by single-depth 2-unit main range on east-west axis, facing north, with a large rear outshut to the centre under a catslide roof; and a lean-to addition at the left end. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 2 widely-spaced 1st-floor windows; with a plinth, and a continuous weathered drip-course over the ground floor. The ground floor has a square-headed doorway offset slightly left of centre (protected by a light pitched canopy on wooden struts); a square 8-pane sash to the left, with vertical glazing bars only, and a rectangular fire-window further left with fixed 9-pane glazing; and an oblong 3-light casement to the right. Above each of the 2 principal windows at ground floor is a square 8-pane sash like that at ground floor. Corbelled chimneys at both gables, that to the left square, more prominently corbelled and from a lower level than that to the right. At the rear the outshut and 2nd bay are back-to-earth at ground-floor level; the outshut has one square window on each floor of its east side, and another small window in the rear wall, and the rear of the 2nd bay has a 2-light casement at 1st floor. INTERIOR: stone partition wall immediately right of doorway, C19 inserted partition to left of doorway; 2 lateral beams in housepart to left, both boxed; no beams visible in kitchen to right; dairy and staircase in rear outshut. A good example of its type and date. Forms group with barn approx. 5m to west (qv) and stable approx. 10m to north (qv).

Listing NGR: SD7097686348