Blands Farmhouse

DENT

SD78NW DENTDALE 162-1/11/22 (North side) Blands Farmhouse

GV II

Small farmhouse. Probably late C17, enlarged in C18; altered. Mixed random rubble to the right-hand half and thin coursed rubble to the left, with large quoins and a stone slate roof. Single-depth 2-unit plan in 2 builds, with a small added outshut to the rear. EXTERIOR: 2 low storeys and 2 windows; with a stone slate drip-course over the ground floor of the right-hand half, and a quoined vertical joint in the centre of the 1st floor (defining this half). At ground floor immediately left of this junction is a square-headed doorway with remains of a former small gabled porch; to the left is a square 12-pane fixed window with one opening pane (at the left end of the centre row), and to the right is an oblong 6-pane fixed window and a former 2-light mullioned window with a chamfered surround. At 1st floor each half has a rectangular 9-pane fixed window with one opening pane, that to the right larger. The right-hand gable has a large square corbelled chimney, the left gable has a later lateral chimney. Left gable wall has small square window near rear corner of 1st floor. Rear: very small square fire-window near east corner; low pantry window in rear wall of outshut and doorway in west wall. INTERIOR: very thick lateral partition wall to right of entrance, with original main doorway to house (suggesting a former through-passage between byre and house); stone flagged floor, 2 chamfered axial beams and exposed joists in housepart to right; staircase mounting along back wall of this room. Rare survival of main features of very small farmhouse (probably formerly a 1-unit dwelling), little altered in C20.

Listing NGR: SD7408886634