Swarth Gill

GARSDALE

SD79SW HAWES ROAD 162-1/7/258 (North side) 16/03/54 Swarth Gill

GV II

Farmhouse with attached cottage, now all one house. Probably late C17, enlarged in early C18 (dated 1712 on porch and on internal spice cupboard); raised and altered. White-washed roughly-coursed rubble with quoins, stone slate roof. T-plan formed by single-depth main range of 1:2 units on an east-west axis facing south, with a rear outshut to the centre of the 2-unit portion. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys (raised from 2), 2:2 windows, with stone slate drip-courses over the ground- and 1st-floors. The 2-unit portion has a gabled porch in the centre (under pitched water-tabling of a formerly more steeply pitched roof) with a square datestone which has raised lettering "H / I I / 1712" (= John and Isabell Haygarth), and a square-headed inner doorway with a studded oak door; an altered and enlarged window to the left and remains of a fire-window left of that, and a 4-light double-chamfered stone mullion window to the right. The 1st floor has a restored or C20 3-light window to the left, remains of a former 2-light window left of that, and a 4-light window to the right like that at ground floor; and at 2nd floor 2 widely separated small square blocked windows. The 1-unit portion to the left has a pitched stone slate canopy over a doorway which has a sloped lintel and an old studded oak door, an altered 3-light window to the left; a 2-light window above the porch and an altered or restored 3-light window left of that; and a blocked 2-light window to the 2nd floor. Chimney at left gable corbelled from 1st floor, square ridge chimney at junction, gable chimney to right. Left gable wall has 3 courses of through-stones. Rear: small fire-windows in line with ridge chimney at ground- and 1st floor; full-height outshut under catslide roof, with (inter alia) two 2-light mullioned windows in the side wall. INTERIOR: 1-unit portion to left has large lateral beam; 2-unit portion has inserted full-height stone partition wall immediately left of doorway, original muntin-and-rail panelled partition to parlour on right; parlour has 2 axial beams, internal chimney over large rectangular stone fireplace with corbelled lintel and chamfered surround, and spice cupboard to right with butterfly hinges and raised lettering matching that on porch; chamber over parlour has chamfered lateral beam with 2 sets of chamfered secondary beams, and built-in spice cupboard with butterfly hinges and carved panel with raised lettering "IHIH / 1712" (= John and Isabell Haygarth); roof has 2 principal rafter trusses, one with stone partition wall immediately west of it. HISTORICAL NOTE: home of John Haygarth (1677-1757) and his wife Isabell. Forms group with barn approx. 30m north-east (qv).

Listing NGR: SD7266490190