Rash Mill Cottage And Attached Barn To East

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SD68NE DENTDALE 162-1/10/134 (South side) 14/06/84 Rash Mill Cottage and attached barn to east (Formerly Listed as: DENTDALE Mill House & attached barn to east & barn (former cottage) attached to south)

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Farmhouse with attached barn. Probably late C17 or early C18; altered. Mixed rubble, the house white-washed, with green slate roofs on 3 levels (stone slate to wing). U-plan formed by single-depth 2-unit house on east-west axis with a single-storey wing projected from the right-hand end (the barn, former cottage) and the barn forming a crosswing at the left end. The HOUSE, 2 storeys and 2 windows, has a single-storey gabled porch with a square-headed opening protecting a C18 door with shouldered and fielded panels; a rectangular 6-pane window to the left with one opening pane, a small square window left of this, and at 1st floor above these a very shallow oblong 4-pane window; and to the right a 6-pane sash at 1st floor. Large square chimney to left. The single-storey wing to the right has a stable door and a 6-pane window in its re-entrant side, a 9-pane window in the gable wall, and two 2-light casements in the west side wall. A garden wall links the wing to the barn. INTERIOR: plank partition wall on timber sill to right of doorway, with 2 board doors; housepart to left has 2 large chamfered lateral beams with exposed joists, heck to left screening stone quarter-turn staircase, with stone wood-hole attached to inner side of heck; complete court cupboard built into rear end of partition wall, with plain cupboard doors in the main body, a set-back top stage with carved doors and oversailing mantel with ball pendants. Partitioned service end: former parlour on south side, with chamfered beam, and narrow pantry on north side with stone shelves. The BARN, of coursed blue ragstone, has a blocked segmental-headed wagon doorway abutting the junction with the house, and a shippon doorway near the left corner. Its gable wall has 4 courses of through-stones. The east side has a wide lean-to outshut supported by a cylindrical pier, forming a cart-shed to the right and a porch to the left, and an outshut to the left of this.

Listing NGR: SD6593289831