West Cowgill Farmhouse

DENT

SD78NE DENTDALE 162-1/12/152 (North side) 16/03/54 West Cowgill Farmhouse (Formerly Listed as: DENTDALE (North side) West Cowgill)

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Dated 1705 on porch; enlarged and altered. White-painted rubble with quoins, slate roof. Long single-depth 2-unit plan, plus rear wing to right-hand end, full-height outshut added in rear angle at an early date, and a further outshut added to the rear of this. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and 2 widely-spaced windows. In the centre is a wide gabled porch which has an outer doorway with a shaped lintel on which is worn raised lettering "HD 1705" (picked out in black paint); at ground floor close to the left of this porch is a small formerly 2-light mullioned window lacking the mullion, and above the left side of the porch roof are traces of a formerly similar window; otherwise, the front has two late C19 mullioned windows on each floor (3 lights at ground floor and 2 lights above) all with square-cut surrounds and flat-faced flush mullions, those to the left vertically aligned near the corner and that to the right at ground floor offset slightly to the right. Gable chimneys. The rear outshut has an old blocked 2-light mullioned window, and the west wall of the rear wing has a similar window at 1st floor. INTERIOR: entrance passage made by C19 inserted partition on right and original partition on left incorporating a large built-in cupboard; 3 large chamfered beams in housepart to right (the front end of that in the centre now suspended over the C19 window by a large iron strap); 2 similar beams in the room to the left (one similarly suspended).

Listing NGR: SD7568087148