West Stonehouse Farmhouse And Attached Garden Wall

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SD78NE DENTDALE 162-1/12/153 (North side) 14/06/84 West Stonehouse Farmhouse and attached garden wall (Formerly Listed as: DENTDALE Stonehouse Farmhouse and Barn to north)

GV II

Farmhouse. Probably late C17, much altered and extended at both ends in C18 and C19; altered. White-painted rubble, the centre portion random, with quoins, and the outer portions coursed, also with quoins; stone slate roof. Single-depth plan, 1+1+1 bays. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 1:1:1 windows. The doorway is immediately left of the vertical joint between the 1st and 2nd bays, protected by a light wooden porch; to the left of this the 1st bay has one square window on each floor to the left (8 and 6-pane top-hung casements); to the right the centre bay has a 6-pane top-hung casement at ground floor and a similar but smaller 4-pane window offset to the right at 1st floor, with the lintel of a former 2-light mullioned window, and the 3rd bay has one similar top-hung casement on each floor. Gable chimneys, and ridge chimney at junction of 2nd and 3rd bays. The left gable wall has a top-hung casement on each floor near the rear corner, and 2 cruciform tie-plates at eaves level. The right-hand gable wall has a doorway protected by a roof carried over from a lean-to outbuilding at the rear corner. Approx. one metre in front of the house, and attached to the west corner, is a low rubble wall which has a gateway in line with the front door, and to the right of this incorporates the dressed lintel of a former round-headed 1-light window, with a panel containing crudely-formed and only partly legible raised lettering "C I[?] [?] 1710". INTERIOR: altered, but thick stone lateral partition walls indicate that the centre was formerly a 1-unit 2-storey dwelling (c.f. Basil Busk, qv, Blands, qv, Blea Beck, qv, Roantree, qv, Low Ground, qv etc), a type which appears to have been characteristic of this dale in the later C17. Forms group with barn approx. 5m north (qv).

Listing NGR: SD7715885918