High Hall Farmhouse Including Cartshed

DENT

SD78NW DENTDALE 162-1/24/94 (North side) 16/03/54 High Hall Farmhouse including cartshed (Formerly Listed as: DENTDALE High Hall and cartshed and Barn to south-west of High Hall)

GV II*

Farmhouse. C17 in 2 builds (dated 1625 and 1665 on plaque at 1st floor); altered in C19 and part now used as a cart shed. Slobbered random rubble, stone slate roofs. Irregular T-plan formed by a single-depth main range of 2 wide units, on an east-west axis facing south, with one narrow bay added to the east at an early date, a large rear wing with a lean-to addition in the west angle and a larger lean-to addition to the north gable. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 4:1 windows. The 4-window symmetrical front of the main range was severely remodelled in the C19, and now has a doorway in the centre protected by a C20 glazed porch, 4 rectangular 2-light casements on each floor (each leaf with a horizontal glazing bar), and a re-located plaque to the left of the 4th window lettered "...ificat Per T/W M 1625 Reaedificicat Per T/R D 1665" (RT=Richard Trotter). At the left gable is a very large external chimney stack which has 3 slated offsets, a slate cornice and a stout cylindrical shaft; and at the junction to the right is another square chimney with a similar shaft. The added bay at the east end has a 5-light double-chamfered stone mullion window on each floor, each with a hoodmould; and a gable chimney. At the rear the exposed north half of the west side of the wing now has a wagon doorway at ground floor, a small blocked square window to the left and a blocked 4-light mullioned window at 1st floor with a hoodmould; and a damaged stone slate roof with the base of a corbelled chimney at the gable. The rear of the main range and extension to the east each have a mullioned window. INTERIOR: main range altered at ground floor (otherwise not inspected); rear wing has remains of a very wide segmental-arched stone fireplace with chamfered surround, but now lacks its upper floor. HISTORICAL NOTE: owned by Richard Trotter, who led the Dent "statesmen" to purchase the manor of Dent from the crown in 1670.

Listing NGR: SD7037587610