Mire House

SEDBERGH

SD69SE CAUTLEY ROAD 162-1/6/305 (East side (off)) 14/06/84 Mire House (Formerly Listed as: CAUTLEY ROAD (East side) Mire House and barn to north-east)

GV II*

Farmhouse, with added cottage, now all one dwelling. C17, altered and remodelled in mid to later C18, with additions (including cottage). Roughly-coursed mixed rubble with quoins (front outshut painted white), graduated stone slate roof with blue slates in the top courses. Linear single-depth plan on east-west axis facing north, with additions to front and rear: 2-unit house (probably formerly with end baffle-entry) with added rear outshut containing staircase and dairy, plus 2 service bays added at east end and front outshut added to these; cottage added at west end. EXTERIOR: 2 low storeys, 1:2:1 windows, with quoined vertical joint to cottage. The front of the main range, remodelled in the C18 to achieve a symmetrical effect, has a segmental-headed doorway in the centre, with rubble voussoirs, a fielded panelled door and an almost semicircular canopy on a pair of long shaped brackets (now supported by added posts). Left of the doorway are remains of a former mullioned window, broken by a segmental-headed 20-pane hornless sashed window with rubble voussoirs, right of it a small 4-pane sashed window, and at 1st floor 2 similarly small sashes (12 and 4 panes). Corniced ridge chimneys at junctions with additions to left and right. To the left a full-height lean-to (covering a former 2-light mullioned window at 1st floor) has a doorway to the right, a renewed 2-light casement to the left and a round-headed 9-pane fixed window in the re-entrant side. Cottage to right has narrow doorway and 9-pane fixed window (with one opening pane) just above. East gable has flat-roofed C20 addition; west gable (of cottage) has through-stones on 3 levels and 2-light mullioned window on each floor. Rear: wide full-height outshut (covering most of original main range and part of addition to east) has 2-light flush-mullioned window near east end; various small sashed windows to all 3 portions. INTERIOR: ground floor has 3 lateral beams, the 1st boxed, the 2nd with mortices of former joists and an inserted beam over it, and the 3rd has mortices of a muntin-and-plank panelled partition which has been re-located eastwards; "cat-malison" cupboards attached to 1st beam and to top of panelled partition, and numerous bacon hooks in ceiling to left of 1st beam; large C18 stone fireplace in left room (thus formed), built-in cupboard in rear wall with fielded panel doors, and the top of a similar cupboard over a bureau of later date built into alcove to left of fireplace; 2 pairs of gun-rings in ceiling of kitchen; dog-legged stone staircase with 2 turned balusters per tread and moulded handrail; 2 C18 principal-rafter roof trusses with collars of light scantling and added tie-beams. Forms group with barn to north-east (qv).

Listing NGR: SD6915194276