Shepherds Cottage

SD 86 NE MALHAM MOOR TARN HOUSE ROAD (north side)

Shepherds Cottage 14/138 (formerly listed as Waterhouses Old Farm- 20.2.58 house)

• II

House. Dated 1635 with late C18 early C19 raised eaves and reroofing. Coursed gritstone rubble, graduated grey slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays with 2-storey porch between bays 1 and 2, and rear outshut. Quoins. Board door to porch in sawn stone surround; reset datestone above with raised lettering, "MT 1635 MT". Board door bay 3. Recessed chamfered mullion windows throughout, of 4,5 and 5 lights with cavetto moulded mullions and hoodmoulds to ground floor; of 3,4 and 4 lights to first floor; of 2 lights to porch first floor and its right return. Stone gutter brackets, shaped kneelers and gable coping to main range, hipped roof to porch. Ridge stack to right of porch and at gables. A reset datestone on the east wall of the porch has the letters "W 164- S". The house retains its C17 plan, but the reset dated lintels, tall ground-floor windows, and raised eaves produce a house of C18 or C19 proportions. The initials M.T. are thought to stand for Matthew Towler and his wife, descendants of the Toller family who farmed Water Houses for the Fountains Abbey Estate at the Dissolution. A. Raistrick, Malham and Malham Moor, 1947 (reprinted 1983), p.103.

Listing NGR: SD8875467365