Combe House

DENT

SD68NE DENTDALE 162-1/10/35 (South side) 11/08/78 Combe House

GV II

Farmhouse, now derelict and ruinous. Probably early to mid C18; altered. Roughly-coursed blue ragstone rubble with some sandstone, sandstone quoins and gritstone dressings, stone slate roof (partly collapsed). Shallow double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, formerly 2 windows and formerly almost symmetrical but most of left half of front wall now collapsed. Ground floor has gabled porch (now roofless) with square-headed doorway, stone-slate drip-course and above this the lower 2 tiers of a formerly 3-tier triangular pattern of pigeon holes; the wall to the left has mostly collapsed (revealing former mullions re-used as through-stones); to the right each floor has a relatively small rectangular window (formerly sashed but now lacking joinery). The left gable wall (partly collapsed) has 2 small chamfered 1-light windows near the corners of the ground floor, prominent through-stones, one remaining chimney-corbel and to the rear of this an attic window like those at ground floor. The rear has a complete set of mullioned windows with chamfered flush-mullions: 3, 2 and 2 lights at ground floor (the 1st and 2nd each with one blocked light); a 2-light stair-window in the centre (lacking the mullion) and 3 widely-separated 2-light windows at 1st floor (that to the left lacking the mullion). INTERIOR: former housepart to left, parlour to right, shallow service rooms to rear and former staircase between these; surviving right-hand portion of roof has C19 or C20 trusses, but collapsed portion had original C18 trusses; otherwise, no surviving features of interest. Forms group with barn approx. 50m south (qv).

Listing NGR: SD6814787555