Rash House

DENT

SD68NE DENTDALE 162-1/10/131 (North side) 14/06/84 Rash House (Formerly Listed as: DENTDALE Rash, barn adjoining to east, barn to west and barn to south-west)

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Probably mid C18; altered. White-washed roughly-coursed rubble with quoins, slate roof. Double-depth plan, plus a short set-back service wing to the right (now ruinous). EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic, 2 windows, almost symmetrical; with a continuous stone slate drip-course over the ground floor. The ground floor has a square-headed doorway offset slightly right of centre, with C18 fielded panel door, the top panels shouldered, protected by a small gabled porch made with monolith stone slab sides (now bowed outwards) and stone slate roof, flanked by square 2-light casements; the 1st floor has 2-light casements with glazing bars in matching openings vertically aligned with those below. Gable chimneys. Former 2-storey service wing, now partly collapsed and lacking upper floor, has stone shelving of former dairy. INTERIOR: housepart to right has doors with fielded panelling, parlour to left has built-in cupboard with matching double doors; doglegged staircase with closed string, rectangular newels, short turned balusters to the upper flight; coupled chamber doorways with fielded panel doors; roof of 2 large pegged collar trusses with raked struts, the principals apparently re-used cruck blades. Forms group with barn to south (qv).

Listing NGR: SD6618489935