Stonehouse

DENT

SD78NE DENTDALE 162-1/12/144 (North side) 14/06/84 Stonehouse

GV II

Marble manufacturer's house, now 2 dwellings. Probably c1800, extended and altered, and internally remodelled in C20. Watershot coursed squared sandstone with gritstone quoins, stone slate roof. Double-depth double-fronted plan, facing west, with addition to north end. EXTERIOR: 2 and 3 storeys, 3+3 windows. The 3-storey symmetrical main range has a tall round-headed doorway with rubble voussoirs and remains of a fanlight with radiating glazing bars (beneath which is now a C20 door); diminishing rectangular windows, those at 2nd floor shallow oblongs and all now with plain C20 glazing; and gable chimneys, that to left coupled with that of the extension. The right-hand gable wall has a blocked loading doorway at attic level. The 2-storey addition to the left has a rectangular window in the centre of the ground floor, a small rectangular window to the left and 3 large rectangular windows above, all these windows with C20 glazing. Rear: main range has lean-to porch offset right, left of this a former round-headed stair-window now with C20 glazing and the head blocked, and at right-hand corner stone steps winding round the corner to a 1st-floor porch in the angle of the addition; otherwise, irregular fenestration with C20 glazing. INTERIOR: altered. HISTORICAL NOTE: home of Paul Nixon, owner of Dent marble works (remains of which, with wheel-pit, are in west end of garden).

Listing NGR: SD7718585893