Darnbrook House

Darnbrook House is a house dated 1664 and restored in the 19th century. It is built from gritstone rubble with graduated grey slates on the front roof and stone slates on the rear. The house has two storeys and three bays, featuring a single-storey porch located between the second and third bays, and a lobby entry plan. At the rear, there is a two-storey, two-bay extension with a parallel roof to the first two bays. The building has quoins, and the porch entrance includes a flat lintel and stone benches. Inside the porch, the main entrance door is set in a deeply chamfered and slightly cambered archway.

On the ground floor, bay one has a restored square window under a hoodmould, with a plain surround and a 20th-century frame. The other windows are recessed chamfered mullion windows, with four and five lights and hoodmoulds flanking the porch, and two, three (now two), and two lights on the first floor. A very large corniced ashlar stack is located on the ridge above the porch, with a smaller ridge stack on the far left.

Inside, a drawbar remains in the main entrance door. There is also a dated lintel, possibly repositioned, with raised lettering that reads "I B 1674 M B" in the opening between the front and rear ranges of the house. This lintel likely dates the addition of two rooms, probably used as service or store rooms. The initials belong to John Buck and his wife, whose family farmed the property after it was tenanted from Fountains Abbey and purchased following the Dissolution.