Hemplands Farmhouse

Farmhouse at Conistone with Kilnsey, dated 1694 with fenestration and additions from the late 18th and 19th centuries. Built for Richard Wigglesworth, with alterations probably made for George Horner. The house is constructed of limestone rubble with gritstone and sandstone dressings, and has a graduated stone slate roof.

The building is two storeys with three bays. The central and right-hand bays project under a catslide roof, and there is a single-storey porch with lean-to roof set in the angle of the first bay. The north front faces the road and features the porch with a six-panel door, the top two panels glazed, set in a basket-arched doorcase with cyma-moulded quoined jambs and a single-block lintel. The lintel bears relief lettering reading "R. W. 1694" in two recessed panels. A dripmould carried over the porch extends round its left return above a small square window with projecting stone sill. The eaves line of the original 17th-century house is visible above the porch to the first bay. The second bay has a four-pane side sliding sash on the ground floor and a four-pane fixed sash above, both in plain surrounds. The third bay contains a round-arched stair window with imposts and keystone set in a slightly projecting surround. There is a corniced eaves stack at the second bay, a rendered rubble stack to the left, a large rebuilt stack between bays two and three, and an external two-flue stack behind the ridge to the right.

The rear south facade contains a half-glazed door (with the lower half being three-panelled) between bays one and two. This door features a finely carved sandstone architrave composed of hollow-moulded jambs, circular motifs in the spandrels, a pulvinated frieze and moulded cornice. Four-pane sashes in slightly projecting plain stone surrounds are found throughout the rear facade. The sills to the third bay windows are chamfered and the two-piece jambs are of yellow sandstone. The left return has an inserted two-light window to the ground floor, and two small blocked chamfered windows on the first floor above a reduction in wall thickness that aligns with the top of the left-hand quoins. The right return features the external stack standing on the centre line of the original 17th-century house, with a small chamfered window with lead cames to the right and a blocked chamfered window to the left. Two four-pane sashes serve the extension to the left.

Internally, the large stack between bays two and three contains an original arched fireplace now concealed by plaster. The house contains late 17th or early 18th-century panelling, though this was not examined in detail at resurvey. Richard Wigglesworth's notebooks from the late 17th century record the costs of materials and labour for the rebuilding of Hemplands. The house was largely completed by 1687 at a cost of approximately £100 and included one "double piped chimney", probably the external west gable stack. The large internal stack may have formed part of an earlier house on the site. The 1694 porch probably originally stood between bays two and three, against the side of this stack, and was relocated when the 18th-century extension was added. The two-bay extension provided a staircase hall and probably an east-facing dairy, typical of vernacular buildings in the later 18th century in this area.