High Barth And Attached Barn

DENT

SD68NE DENTDALE 162-1/10/91 (North side) 14/06/84 High Barth and attached barn (Formerly Listed as: DENTDALE High Barth)

GV II

Farmhouse, now house, with attached barn. Late C17, rebuilt in earlier C19; altered. Roughly coursed thin sandstone rubble with dressed quoins, stone slate roof. Linear 3-bay plan on east-west axis facing south with an almost continuous full-height rear outshut; barn attached to west end. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and 4 windows, with a plain square-headed doorway offset to the right, a 2-light window above the doorway with cusped lights, metal glazing bars and a casement opening in the lower part of the left light; two 3-light windows on each floor to the left and one on each floor to the right; all these windows with square-cut plain surrounds and flat-faced mullions, similar glazing bars and similar casement openings in the centre lights. Ridge chimney and gable chimneys. Lower and earlier barn continues at left end. Rear: added lean-to porch in angle at west end of outshut; 2-light window above this, like those at the front. The barn, of large roughly-coursed rubble, with a stone slate roof, 2 low storeys, has an external flight of steps to a loft doorway in the centre, various square windows on both floors to the left, and a square-headed wagon doorway in the west gable, with a massive monolithic lintel. INTERIOR: the west room contains a bakstone and a salt-cupboard.

Listing NGR: SD6966888081