Stone Close Cafe And Adjoining Barn To West

DENT

SD7087 MAIN STREET, Dent Town 162-1/24/194 (North side) 31/05/77 Stone Close cafe, and adjoining barn to west (Formerly Listed as: MAIN STREET Stone Close and adjoining barn to west)

GV II

Pair of cottages, now cafe with dwelling over, with attached barn. Probably late C17 and early to mid C18. White-washed roughly coursed rubble with quoins; stone slate roof. Linear plan on roughly east-west axis facing south, the left cottage single-depth and 1 unit each plus a back extension, the right-hand cottage double-depth; and the barn continued at the west end of the left cottage. EXTERIOR: the cottages are 2-storeyed (with 3-storey proportions), 2 windows each, with a plinth. The doorways almost adjoin in the centre of this range, both are square-headed but that to the right is taller. The left cottage has a rectangular window at ground floor with a C20 small-paned top-hung casement, and 2 square windows at 1st-floor level, both now top-hung casements imitating 6-pane sashes. The right-hand cottage has a large square shop window at ground floor, with glazing bars, and 2 rectangular windows above, both now top-hung casements imitating 12-pane sashes. Large square chimney on the ridge at junction with barn and overlapping it (indicating that it is either corbelled or extruded), with a stone slate band and a flat stone slate cap; gable chimney at junction with Dolly's Cottage to right. The barn continued at the same height to the left, 3 bays, has a doorway at the junction, a segmental-headed wagon doorway in the centre, with long rubble voussoirs, and some blocked slit-breathers. INTERIOR: the left cottage has a sunk floor, and a pair of large chamfered lateral beams; the right-hand cottage has a pair of smaller chamfered axial beams, a very large rectangular C18 fireplace with a corbelled lintel and moulded cornice, containing a mid C19 iron range with cranes (etc); and, flanking the fireplace, complete suites of built-in C18 cupboards with fielded and shaped panels. At 1st floor the left cottage has a lateral beam (boxed), the ceiling to the east of it being noticeably lower than to the west: perhaps an indication of a former partial attic loft.

Listing NGR: SD7045887053