Low Haygarth Farmhouse

SEDBERGH

SD69NE CAUTLEY ROAD 162-1/2/297 (West side) 14/06/84 Low Haygarth Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Dated 1728 over doorway; altered. White-painted rubble with quoins and some through-stones, composition tile roof. Single-depth 2-unit main range on north-south axis facing east, with a 2-storey porch in the centre and a rear wing to the 2nd bay with an integral outshut on its south side. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 2:1:2 windows, symmetrical, with a stone slate drip course over the ground floor (interrupted by the porch). The 2-storey gabled porch has a square-headed outer opening, side benches, an inner doorway with a stone lintel which has panels with raised lettering "L / 17 : IM : 28"; and a 2-light casement at 1st floor. The main range has 2 square windows on each floor each side of the porch (all C20 2-light casements and that next to left of porch at 1st floor now renewed with plastic double-glazing). Gable chimneys, that to right corbelled and that to left almost square. Rear: the asymmetrically gabled wing has a gabled porch in the centre, with a square-headed outer opening, side-benches and a slate roof, flanked by square fixed windows of 12 and 9 panes at ground floor (the latter with one opening pane) and two 4-pane sashes above. INTERIOR: housepart in 2nd bay has 2 lateral beams including smokehood bressumer with 2 bearers, C18 built-in cupboard with 2 pairs of fielded panel doors, complete fielded panel partition wall to parlour, and panelled door into rear wing; dog-legged staircase with closed string, rectangular newels and turned balusters with moulded handrail; complete panelled partition between chambers like that below; enclosed smokehood in chamber over housepart, with panelled door to closet beside this. An unusually complete survival of most of the principal internal features of the period. Forms group with barn approx. 5m south (qv).

Listing NGR: SD6966496750