Carlow Hill

DENT

SD78NE DENTDALE 162-1/12/32 (South side) 14/06/84 Carlow Hill

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Also known as: Carlow Hall Cottage DENTDALE. Small farmhouse with attached peat-house and shippon, now house. Probably earlier C18; enlarged in C19 and altered. White-painted random rubble with quoins, stone slate roof. Single-depth plan formerly one unit, enlarged by addition of 2nd unit at south end, with shippon/barn attached at north end built into rising slope. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 1:1:1 windows, with vertical joints left and right of the centre bay; a square-headed doorway to the left of the 1st joint, protected by a small early C20 gabled wooden porch; one 8-pane sashed window on each floor to the left, with vertical glazing bars only; a small 2-light casement at ground floor to the right and a small square 6-pane sash above. Attached peat-house to the right, breaking forwards slightly, has 12-pane fixed window at 1st-floor level, with one opening pane. Ridge chimney at junction of 1st and 2nd bays, gable chimney to left. Small lean-to outbuilding attached to right-hand gable wall of peat-house. Rear: full-height outshut to south end, lean-to in angle with this. INTERIOR: doorway in thick stone partition wall between 1st and 2nd bays (formerly the south gable wall), with original board door and strap hinges; chamfered axial beam in centre bay, with exposed joists; otherwise altered.

Listing NGR: SD7711285794