Huds House And Attached Barn

DENT

SD78NE DENTDALE 162-1/12/99 (North side) 16/03/54 Hud's House and attached barn (Formerly Listed as: DENTDALE Huds House)

GV II

Farmhouse, now house; with attached barn to rear. Probably earlier C17, remodelled and raised in later C17 or early C18; altered. Random rubble with quoins, stone slate roof. Irregular L-shaped plan composed of a single-depth 2-unit main range with a large central porch, a rear outshut to the centre and west portions, and a long barn range forming a rear wing to the east portion. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys (raised from one storey), 1:2 windows. The prominent storeyed porch in the centre has a narrow square-headed outer doorway, a stone slate cornice above this, a few randomly-arranged through-stones, stone side-benches and a chamfered axial beam, its left (west) side wall has an unusual oblong projection (of unknown purpose) at 1st floor level, and its right-hand side wall has a 9-pane fixed window at 1st floor. To the left the main range has a rubble relieving arch at ground floor over 2 altered windows, a narrow 1-light window further left, a stone platform or bench (known as a "bink") beneath these windows, and one square window at 1st floor; to the right of the porch is a similar but smaller relieving arch over a square 2-light casement, a smaller 4-pane window further right, and at 1st floor an oblong window and a square window (the latter with a re-used lintel). At the left gable is a large external chimney stack with both battering and stone slate offsets, and a stone slate cornice; at the right-hand gable is a large square corbelled chimney. Both gable walls show the gable-lines of a formerly very steeply-pitched roof, and the left gable wall has 2 small blocked attic windows flanking the chimney. Rear outshuts in 2 phases, the centre earlier, with a chamfered 1-light window to the dairy. The barn wing to the rear has through-stones in all 3 walls; its east side wall has an inserted domestic window abutting the rear corner of the house on each floor, a doorway with a cornice, a blocked loading doorway above and to the right, and a small square opening near the far end; its west side has a small lean-to. INTERIOR: thick stone lateral partition wall to left of doorway, inserted C19 partition to right; stop-chamfered joists over passage thus formed but none visible in room to right (suggesting former sleeping loft to this room); left room has tall segmental-arched fireplace with rubble voussoirs; right-hand room has C18 stone fireplace with corbelled lintel, and bread-oven to left of this.

Listing NGR: SD7519686857