Scar House

Scar House is a house, likely dating back to the 17th century with additions and alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries. It was probably built in 1697 for James Tennant, although earlier remains from the 17th century are present, and the front wall was rebuilt and the plan altered in 1876 for John William Ramsden of Buckden House. The construction is of coursed limestone rubble with a graduated stone slate roof.

The house is two storeys high with three bays. It has quoins, and a 20th-century door to the right of centre, set within a rusticated quoined surround featuring a pulvinated frieze and a moulded cornice. A stone plaque above this door displays "REBUILT" in raised letters and a date "JWR 1876." A date plaque with the letters "T" in raised lettering and a 4-petal flower motif with the inscription "IA 1698" is also present. Mullioned windows, dating from 1876, are set into the front facade, with 2, 4, and 4 lights on each floor. Other features include stone gutter brackets, shaped kneelers, gable copings, and corniced end stacks.

The rear of the house features recessed chamfered mullions, likely from the 17th century, with 3 and 5 lights on the ground floor and 3 and 4 lights above. A large rectangular stair window with 20th-century glazing occupies the centre of the rear elevation, and below it is a blocked round arched single-light window. The left return shows a 20th-century glazed door in a chamfered quoined surround with a cambered head. The right return reveals the remains of a plinth, along with two low windows with reused or altered 17th-century surrounds.

Inside, the front door leads into a narrow passage. An inserted partition creates separate rooms to the left and right. A thick cross wall divides the front room from the rear entrance lobby to the left, and a central staircase was added in 1876. A pantry or buttery is located to the right. The main living room on the ground floor has a large fireplace with chamfered voussoirs forming an archway to the left, now leading to a small storeroom with stone shelves. The fireplace features an inner arch with finely worked cyma mouldings to the voussoirs and jambs. The front parlour has an inserted partition wall containing a built-in cupboard, which creates a narrow "toolroom" between the parlour and the rear dairy. The dairy contains a stone salting slab inscribed "IT 1694."

Historically, the house belonged to the Tennant family in the 17th century, and George Fox preached there in 1652. An inventory of James Tennant, who built the earliest surviving parts of the house, dates to 1719 and references chambers on two floors and garrets within the roof space.