Cow Dub Farmhouse And Attached Barn

DENT

SD78NE DENTDALE 162-1/12/37 (South side) Cow Dub Farmhouse and attached barn

GV II

Farmhouse with attached barn. Probably late C17 or early C18, with C18 addition; altered. House of random rubble with quoins, the front and rear painted white and the west gable tarred, barn of coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, both with graduated stone slate roofs except west slope of wing to house which is blue slate. Irregular plan composed of 2-unit house on east-west axis with broad gabled wing to north side of 2nd unit, barn attached to east end and carried round into re-entrant angle of house (under catslide roof). EXTERIOR: the house is 2 storeys with a 1-window entrance front in the gable of the wing, which has a square-headed doorway offset left, an oblong window to the right of this with altered glazing and a 4-pane sash at 1st floor. Gable chimney to right, ridge chimney at junction with barn to left. The barn to the left, single-storey under a catslide roof, has a wagon doorway in the centre with a wooden lintel and C19 harr-hung doors, a square window to the left and a small 1-light window to the right. At the west (right-hand) end there is a lean-to coalhouse in the angle of the wing and another lean-to attached to the west gable. The 3-window south front has a square-headed doorway offset left, a square window left of this, 2 rectangular windows to the right, similar rectangular windows to left and right at 1st floor and a small square window offset right between these; all these windows with altered glazing. South side of barn has wide lean-to porch. INTERIOR: housepart in west bay has boxed beams and wooden under-drawn ceiling; spiral staircase in front left corner of wing, and next to this an old plank door with strap hinges. Forms group with Sportsman's Inn approx. 10m north (qv).

Listing NGR: SD7683686296