Peggles Wright Farmhouse And Cart Shed Attached At North End

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SD78NW DENTDALE 162-1/11/128 (North side) 14/06/84 Peggles Wright Farmhouse, and cart-shed attached at north end (Formerly Listed as: DENTDALE Peggles Wright and Barn to west)

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Farmhouse, with attached cart-shed at north end. Early C18, altered; and the cart-shed later. Slobbered random sandstone rubble with quoins, and the cart-shed of coursed squared rubble, stone slate roofs to both. Single-depth plan of 2 wide bays separated by a lateral entrance passage, on a north-south axis at right-angles to the hillside and facing west. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and 5 windows (the 1st blocked). The ground floor has a wide single-storey gabled porch offset slightly right, with square-headed outer and inner doorways, the outer now closed by a C20 door and the inner with a pegged oak door furnished with strap-hinges and wooden sneck; formerly mullioned windows of 2 and 3 lights to the left with the stools of former chamfered flush-mullions, and to the right a similar 3-light window (lacking the stools), all with slate drip-courses over and all now with wooden casements. The 1st floor has 4 similar 2-light windows, and at the left end a blocked one-light window. Gable chimneys, both now short, with slate courses, and that to the left corbelled (corbelling now covered by the cart-shed). Rear has shallow outshut to 1st bay, with one small window on each floor, a window at 1st floor left of this, a small 4-pane fixed window to the dairy and an oblong 6-pane window above. Attached 2-bay cart-shed, built to same height, has wagon entrance adjoining house, with flat-arched rubble voussoirs; and C18 collar truss. INTERIOR: stone partition walls (to ground floor only, and that to the left built under a beam) form entrance hall leading to short dog-legged staircase with closed string and turned balusters to the upper flight; housepart to left (north) has large lateral beam, both this and the joists concealed by C19 tongue-and-groove ceiling boards; south bay has large lateral beam supporting joists laid on top of it, and an axial partition making a dairy to the rear. Forms group with barn facing it approx. 15 metres west (qv).

Listing NGR: SD7259786756