Peggles Wright Farmhouse And Cart Shed Attached At North End

The property comprises an early 18th-century farmhouse with an attached cart shed at the north end, altered subsequently, and situated in Dentdale. The farmhouse is constructed of roughly dressed sandstone rubble with quoins, while the cart shed is of coursed squared rubble. Both have stone slate roofs. The building follows a single-depth plan, with two wide bays separated by a lateral entrance passage, oriented north-south and facing west, at a right angle to the hillside.

The exterior features a two-storey, five-window facade (one blocked). A wide, single-storey gabled porch is set slightly to the right, with a square-headed outer and inner doorway. The outer door is a 20th-century replacement; the inner door is of pegged oak, with strap-hinges and a wooden sneck. The ground floor once had mullioned windows of two and three lights to the left, retaining the stools of the former flush-mullions, and a similar three-light window to the right (lacking stools). All original windows had slate drip-courses and are now fitted with wooden casements. The first floor has four similar two-light windows, and a blocked one-light window at the left end. Gable chimneys, though now short with slate courses, are present, with that on the left corbelled (the corbelling is now covered by the cart shed). A shallow outshut extends to the rear of the first bay, with a small window on each floor, another window at the first floor to the left, a small four-pane fixed window to the dairy, and an oblong six-pane window above. The attached two-bay cart shed is built to the same height and has a wagon entrance with flat-arched rubble voussoirs; within is an 18th-century collar truss.

The interior includes stone partition walls (to the ground floor only, and that to the left built under a beam) forming an entrance hall leading to a short dog-legged staircase with a closed string and turned balusters to the upper flight. The north side of the house features a large lateral beam, both this and the joists concealed by 19th-century tongue-and-groove ceiling boards. The south bay has a large lateral beam supporting joists laid on top of it, with an axial partition forming a dairy to the rear. The property forms a group with a barn approximately 15 metres to the west.