Mill Beck And Barn Attached To South End

This is a late 17th or early 18th-century farmhouse with an attached barn, which is now a dwelling. It is located in Dent, facing east and situated on a slope with the barn at a higher level to the south. The house is built of roughly coursed mixed rubble with quoins, with the front and north end painted white. It has a roof of stone slates. Originally a single-depth, two-unit plan on a north-south axis, it was extended early on with two gabled wings to the rear, connected by a lean-to outshut.

The exterior has two storeys and four small windows at the first floor. The ground floor includes a gabled porch, two windows to the left, and one to the right. The left-hand ground floor window features a chamfered surround and stone slate drip-mould, while the others have been enlarged in the 20th century. The upper floor has two four-pane sash windows to the left, and a two-light casement and a single-light window to the right. A large stepped gable chimney is located at the junction with the barn to the left (likely corbelled), and a smaller gable chimney to the right. The barn to the left has a doorway abutting the junction, a blocked doorway near the south end, and a slit breather between them. The north return side of the house has some through-stones and two small windows on each floor. The rear of the house features a doorway within the outshut, an inserted window above and to the right, one small window on each floor in the south wing, a single-light ground-floor window in the north wing, and the base of a former square gable chimney. The barn’s north side has two wagon doorways - one with a wooden lintel, the other with rubble voussoirs. The interior was not inspected.