Croft Farmhouse And Attached Outbuildings

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CARLTON HIGHDALE ARKLESIDE Croft Farmhouse and attached outbuildings

GV II

2 farm cottages, now farmhouse, and attached outbuildings. Early-mid C18 with later alterations. Rubble, stone slate roofs. 2 storeys, 1:2:1 first- floor openings, with 2-storey rear outshut to house. Quoins. House, in centre of range: central part-glazed door in chamfered ashlar surround with impost blocks, and to its right, a side-sliding sash window with chamfered lintel, possibly at one time a doorway. To left and right, on each floor a 6-pane window in chamfered surrounds, fixed-lights on ground floor and sashes on first floor. Ashlar end stacks. To left, outbuilding with ashlar surrounds with impost blocks to a doorway on each floor, formerly with steps up to first floor. To right, lower outbuilding, with quoined surround to doorway and small first-floor window. Slab coping to ends overall. Rear: outshut: outer bays of chamfered ashlar window surrounds, and in centre 2 round-arched chamfered ashlar landing windows. Left return of outbuilding: lower roof slope to outbuilding, but of same pitch as existing. Interior: in ground-floor room to left, C18 ashlar fireplace with corniced mantelshelf supported on cyma reversa corbels; stop-chamfered beams; behind it the dairy with stone shelves. 2 stone dogleg staircases.

Listing NGR: SE0441280544