Hallgarth Farmhouse And Hallgarth Cottage

THORALBY HALLGARTH SE 0086-0186 13/122 Hallgarth Farmhouse and Hallgarth Cottage (formerly listed as Hallgarth and Hallgarth 25.3.69 Cottage) - II

Farmhouse now house, and cottage. Early C17 with late C17 - early C18 and early-mid C18 alterations. Rubble, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 first- floor windows, with double-depth plan to central bay. Double-chamfered mullion windows with ovolo moulding and hoodmoulds to first and second ground-floor windows; other windows, flat-faced mullioned in architraves. Ground floor, from left: blocked doorway; 4-light window; C20 porch with part-glazed inner door; 5-light window; early C18 door of 6 fielded panels in chamfered quoined surround with hoodmould; 3-light window. First-floor windows: of 4, 3 and 3 lights. Kneelers fashioned from thin slabs of stone with ovolo moulding to front, ashlar coping. Stacks between first and second, second and third bays and at right end. To right, set back, 2- storey extension not of special interest. Rear: C18 two-light mullion-and- transom landing window with flat-faced mullions in hollow-chamfered surround; to its right a first-floor 3-light double-chamfered mullion window with ovolo moulding and hoodmould with detached stops, and with large slab at the base, below which is a blocked matching continuation of the same visible,inside only. Interior: in left ground-floor room, C17 ashlar fireplace with ovolo moulding on arris, the bressumer renewed, fielded-panel window seat; in central ground-floor room, C18 ashlar fireplace with pilaster capitals, probably altered, fielded-panel window seat, 6-panel doors with L hinges, stop-chamfered reused beams and joists; in right ground-floor room, very-broadly chamfered and stopped beams, fielded-panel shutters with H hinges and matching window seat; fielded-panel doors to cupboard on inner wall; stone staircase inside C18 landing window; exposed above staircase are 2 roof trusses with overlapping trenched purlins with a diagonal ridge scarfed at each truss. There is clear evidence for a firehood in the central room which, with the ovolo mullion windows, makes this one of the earliest houses in this area. North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report No 182.

Listing NGR: SE0015486509