House Now Outbuilding At High Foxup

SD 87 NE 5/72

HALTON GILL FOXUP House now outbuilding at High Foxup

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House, now sheep shelter. Dated 1673 with C18 alterations. Gritstone rubble, graduated stone slate roof. 1½ storeys, 3 bays with central outshut porch. Blocked door in porch right return has quoined jambs and large lintel with recessed panel and raised lettering, "T.M.A.E, 1673" An inserted doorway on the porch front wall, and another to bay 3. Recessed chamfered mullion windows throughout, of 4 lights with 2 mullions removed to bay 1, ground floor, and of 3 lights with 1 mullion removed to first floor. A fire window without dressed stone surround, far left; bay 3: a blocked window of 2 or more lights, the right jamb destroyed by the inserted doorway, and a 2-light window above, the mullion removed. Rear: semicircular stair turret, centre, with a pierced stone circular window. 3 narrow low chamfered windows, 2 to left and 1 to right of the stair turret. Interior: the door position may be original, in a sheltered angle rather than on the porch front which would have necessitated a gabled porch, or the porch may be an addition. The main living room was at the left end; the bressumer survives, underbuilt with a smaller stone fireplace, the firebay lit by the small fire-windows front and back. Detailed examination could not be made of the interior because of the dangerous condition of the building. The rear wall is a rare example of unaltered C17 fenestration, kept to a minimum on the cold side of the house. The circular window lights the stone newel staircase at step level. Derelict at the time of resurvey.

Listing NGR: SD8689576719