Dinsdales Cottage

STAINFORTH KNIGHT STAINFORTH SD 86 NW 2/19 Dinsdale's Cottage 20.2.58 GV II Farmhouse. Dated 1649 with C18 and later additions Slobbered rubble brought to course, stone dressings, stone slate roof. 2 storeys 3 bays. Entrance to left of centre has chamfered surround and stops. Tudor arched lintel dated with initials CD, (Christopher Dawson), C20 glazed door. 2 ground floor and 2 upper floor chamfered windows; all probably former cross windows with mullions and transoms cut out. Left-hand bay is an extension, and its ground floor window was lowered in C20 to form an entrance. Right-hand bay has a quirked and double-quirked bead moulded surround to window on both floors. All windows have C20 casements except a late C19 sash with glazing bars in the upper floor left-hand window. Ridge stack between central and right-hand bays, right-hand gable end and ridge stack. Right- hand return has projecting stack on 3 corbels with 3-light double chamfered window and hoodmould to its right. Two single-light chamfered windows one above the other on either side of the stack are all now blocked. Source: T Brayshaw and R M Robinson, A History of the Ancient Parish of Giggleswick (1932), p.115.

Listing NGR: SD8135267203