West Scale

GARSDALE

SD79SE GRISDALE 162-1/8/212 West Scale 14/06/84

GV II

Farmhouse, recently used as store but now derelict. Later C17 (ex situ lintel formerly at East Scale, said to have been dated 1686); altered. Coursed sandstone rubble, mostly in alternately thick and thin courses, with quoins; stone slate roof. Single-depth plan of 2 unequal bays, on north-east/south-west axis facing south-east, with remains of a former 2-storey porch at the front and a semi-cylindrical stair-turret at the rear (both central). EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and 3 windows, grouped 2:1. In the centre there is a square-headed doorway at ground floor and a slightly narrower doorway immediately above, both with slab lintels, framed by torn masonry and the bases of the side walls of the former porch. To the left there are two small formerly mullioned 2-light windows on each floor, those at ground floor with moulded surrounds and those above shallower with plain surrounds (that to the left blocked), all with the stools of former chamfered flush mullions, and holes for saddle bars in the sills and lintels. To the right an inserted doorway replaces a former window at ground floor, but the upper floor has a window like those to the left. Gable chimney to right, former gable chimney to left missing (neither corbelled); 3rd bay of roof-ridge sagging badly at time of inspection (October 1994). Small set-back lean-to attached to east gable wall. Rear: chamfered 1-light window in stair-turret (blocked); similar window on each floor to left (the upper blocked). INTERIOR: stone lateral partition walls, that to left inserted under one of 2 chamfered lateral beams in housepart but the other carried up to the roof; rectangular fireplace in housepart, recess to left for former built-in cupboard; stone winder stairs, with very narrow flight continued up partition wall to former attic; barrel-shaped fireplace in chamber over parlour but none in that room; collarless principal rafter roof truss over housepart, with 2 pairs of purlins lapped over them, and original rafters. Forms group with East Scale approx. 100m south (qv), in remote and romantically desolate site at head of Grisdale.

Listing NGR: SD7669493987