Cams House And Railings

Cams House is a mid-to-late 18th-century house and cottage, now combined into a single dwelling, together with its front railings. It's constructed of coursed rubble with a stone slate roof and features wrought-iron railings. The house is two storeys high with a four-window first floor and a single window on the ground floor. Openings are characterised by segmental relieving arches above thin slab lintels. The ground floor has 24-pane sash windows, with leaved part-glazed doors and overlights beneath two windows. A dripmould runs above the doors, stepping upwards. The first floor has two 12-pane sashes and one 16-pane sash, along with a small casement window. Shaped kneelers and ashlar coping are present, along with end stacks. The cottage, which projects forward on the right-hand side, has quoins. It contains a board door and a sash window with glazing bars on the ground floor, a dripmould, and a sash window with glazing bars on the first floor. A square stack with a circular upper section is located at the right end of the cottage. In front of the house, plain railings are punctuated by urn finials on standards and are set within square ashlar gate piers in the centre. Constructed, it is believed, as a three-storey house for Samuel Lindsey, an Askrigg attorney.