Beckside Farmhouse And Attached Barn To South West

SEDBERGH

SD69SW HOWGILL LANE, Howgill 162-1/5/351 (West side (off)) Beckside Farmhouse and attached barn to south-west

GV II

Farmhouse with attached bank barn. Probably early C18; altered and extended. Roughly-coursed mixed rubble (the house painted white), roof of graduated slate with stone-slate lower courses. Linear plan on approximately east-west axis, the house single-depth, 3 bays (the 3rd perhaps an addition, plus an added service wing to the rear of this), and the barn continued to the left. HOUSE: 2 storeys and 2:1 windows. The 2-window portion has a doorway in the centre with a part-glazed door protected by a small gabled part-glazed porch, a square 4-pane sashed window to the left, a slightly smaller 4-pane sash above this, an oblong 6-pane sash to the right and a square 4-pane sash offset to the right above the doorway. The 1-window portion to the right has a broad square-headed doorway next to the junction, a square 4-pane sash to the right and a small rectangular 4-pane sash above. Ridge chimneys at the junctions (i.e. at both gables of the 2-window portion if that were free-standing). INTERIOR: 2 large lateral beams, that to left of front door forming head of panelled partition including some muntin-and-plank panelling; matching C18 built-in cupboards in front corners of both main rooms, with fielded panels; staircase along rear wall of 2nd bay; stone-flagged floor and 2 heavy axial beams in 3rd bay, stone shelving in dairy to rear of this. BARN: a long range, with the shippon under the left half and a prominent 3-bay full-height lean-to in front of the right-hand half, with the wagon entrance in its centre (now furnished with C20 sliding door). The left half has through-stones on 3 levels, a doorway at the left end of the shippon and stone steps up to a loading doorway in the centre. INTERIOR: lintel of inner wagon doorway made of re-used cruck timbers; principal rafter roof trusses, some with collars, carrying 2 pairs of trenched purlins, many timbers being re-used elements of a former timber-framed building, some with carpenter's marks.

Listing NGR: SD6306294947