Low Scar And Barn Attached To East

A farmhouse with an attached barn, dating to 1724 and subsequently altered, is located in Garzdale. The building is constructed from coursed rubble with quoins and some through-stones, the house itself having been painted white, and features a stone slate roof. It has a roughly east-west axis, facing south, with the barn extending eastwards.

The farmhouse demonstrates a two-unit, one-and-a-half depth plan. The exterior presents three windows over two storeys, with a stone slate drip-course above the ground floor. A gabled porch, offset to the right, features a square-headed outer opening, an iron-studded oak inner door, and a re-cut square stone plaque inscribed “ID:ID / 1724” in the gable. There are stepped three-light windows to the left and right of the porch, and a two-light fire-window to the left of those. Above are two two-light windows to the left and a stepped three-light window to the right. A former corbelled chimney at the left gable has been replaced with a 20th-century chimney; another 20th-century chimney is located at the junction with the barn to the right. The barn extension continues at the same height, with a doorway to the left (now with a concrete lintel), a former doorway near the right-hand end that has been altered into a window, and a square loading doorway above (now with 20th-century glazing). The rear of the house features a staggered pair of small, chamfered one-light stair-windows in the centre, now flanked by large 20th-century three-light casements on each floor. The rear of the barn has a wagon doorway to the left, now fitted with a glazed screen and door.

Inside the house, the original axial beam has been removed and reused at a junction, and the original smokehood bressumer has also been removed and reused as an axial beam. A former panelled partition has been taken down, with parts of the beams to which it was attached being reused as a lintel over the doorway to the staircase and over a cupboard. An old board door leads to the parlour, now integrated with the former dairy to its rear. The tie-beam of the roof truss has been removed and replaced with a new one at a higher level.