Tower House, With Adjoining Gateway And Coal Store

Tower House is a 17th-century house with a gateway and coal store, located in Ravenstonedale. The house retains initials "T & FA" on an undated lintel. Later additions and alterations include a 19th-century gateway and coal store. The house is constructed of all slobbered rubble with a stone plinth. It has graduated slate roofs with stone-flagged eaves, and kneelers to the corbie-stepped south gable. The house is two-storeys high and originally four bays. It features a central panelled door within an architrave, two original two-light mullioned windows, an inserted 19th-century window to the left, an enlarged two-light (originally four-light) mullioned window and a fire window to the right, all beneath a continuous hoodmould. Some original windows remain on the first floor, with later insertions present elsewhere. A moulded cast-iron gutter runs along the roofline. Stone mid and end chimneys are also present. The interior of the house retains original reset panelling and beams. A Gothic style, two-storey, single-bay coal store has a door on the inner elevation, a slit window to the ground floor, and a cross-shaped vent slit on the roadside elevation, and it is castellated. The coal store is linked to the south gable of the house by a gateway with a segmental arch.