New House, Farmhouse And Outbuildings

New House is a farmhouse and outbuildings dated 1635, originally built for Christopher Clough. It is marked as West New Houses on the 6-inch Ordnance Survey map. The structure features rubble walls and stone slate roofs, with a T-shaped plan and two storeys. The farmhouse has four first-floor windows and a single-storey rear projection. In the third bay, there is a board door set in an ogee-moulded ashlar surround with a triangular head in a square, featuring quatrefoils in the spandrels and an inscription "CEC 1635" above it. The ground floor has double-chamfered mullion windows, with three and five lights to the left of the door and four lights to the right, all under a continuous hoodmould. The first floor has three-light windows, except for a single light with an ogee head above the door. The eaves have been raised. On the right side, there is a chamfered round-headed fire window on the ground floor and a chamfered straight-headed single-light window on the first floor, indicating hints of an older, lower, steeper roof slope. To the left of the house is a two-storey, three-bay outbuilding, which includes barn doors with chamfered quoined jambs, a timber lintel, and a segmental arch; a stable door with a chamfered surround; a small window; steps leading up to a board door for the hayloft; and board-leaved doors. This is the oldest dated house in Bishopdale, which was originally thatched.