Lainger House

Lainger House is a house dated 1673, with alterations from the mid-to-late 18th century. It is constructed of rubble with a graduated stone slate roof. The house is two storeys, originally three bays, with a projecting two-storey porch in the first bay and a two-bay farm building attached to the right. The porch retains 17th-century features and quoins. The doorway is located on the return side, featuring a very elaborate moulded surround. The jambs consist of two quarter-round mouldings separated by a fillet, which extends across the lintel as an irregular wavy line. The lintel incorporates recessed panels: the letter “I” to the left, “G” to the right, and the date "1673" centrally. Above the date is a relief carving of a running animal (possibly a goat) and a clover leaf. A continuous dripmould steps up as a small shouldered arch over the center of the lintel. The ground floor window of the porch has three recessed chamfered lights, located below the dripmould which steps down and has a stepped stop to the left. The first-floor window has three round-headed lights with a cavetto moulding; the hoodmould has spiral stops and a raised central section forming the arms and shoulders of a carved figure whose carefully carved head is full-face, surmounted by five perching ledges, suggesting a wide-brimmed hat, and topped by a blocked opening above the head, with a hoodmould above that. The right side of the porch features a four-panel half-glazed door in a plain stone surround. The walls of the second and third bays contain four-pane sashes in plain surrounds. The wall line of the third bay breaks forward slightly. The porch has a lower roof than the main body of the house, both featuring bulbous kneelers and gable copings. A large corniced stack is located at the left gable and to the right of the second bay. Inside, the original doorway opened onto a large stack, with a fireplace and flanking doorways facing into the main room and lit by the window of the second bay. The wide arched fireplace has a moulded chamfer and finely cut voussoirs; the segmental-arched doorways are also of finely cut blocks. The doorway to the right is obscured by a staircase and partition. Two spine beams on corbels are boxed in; an inserted partition screens this room from the later entrance. The room in the third bay is floored at a higher level, and the dividing wall incorporates two wooden grilles. The style of the carving on the house and the fireplace is similar to that at The Folly in Settle.