Chapel House Farmhouse with attached outbuilding

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SD 96 NE 16/56

CONISTONE WITH KILNSEY Kilnsey B6160 (east side) Chapel House Farmhouse with attached outbuilding

II Farmhouse with stable and hayloft, now house and garage. Dated 1774, probably for Thomas Tennant of Chapel House (q.v.) Limestone rubble, gritstone dressings, graduated stone slate roof.

Two storey, three bay house with lower two storey outbuilding to left. Rusticated quoins and plinth. Central half-glazed C20 door in sawn stone surround, the date stone above the door inscribed " T " with the date "1774" below. A triangular hood I C above the door is formed from two pitched stone slabs. Flanking and first floor tripartite flat-faced mullion windows with plate glass sashes. Blind window above door. All windows with slightly raised surrounds and projecting sills. Stone gutter brackets, moulded kneelers, gable copings, corniced end stacks. Lead down-pipe to right of entrance, the fluted hopper head with "I T 1779" in raised letters. Outbuilding to left: quoins, two slit vents to each storey, stone gutter brackets, rubble walling rendered. Moulded kneeler and gable coping with ball finial to left.

Rear, house: a central half-glazed door as front; chamfered lintel and solid jambs; flanking and first floor four-pane sashes in plain stone surrounds; a round-arched stair window with glazing bars above the door.

Rear of outbuilding: as front. Left return (outbuilding): a cart entrance with voussoirs to segmental arch overlain by C20 sliding garage doors to left: a round-arched doorway with board stable door and blocked overlight to right, the jambs and voussoirs of well-tooled ashlar. An inserted two-light window to ground floor, centre. Circular pitching eye to first floor centre.

Interior (of house): the rear door opens into a staircase hall: stairs of two straight flights with half landing, the balusters of cup and column form having finely moulded principal balusters and handrail. Two fielded panel doors open into front rooms, not seen at resurvey.

Listing NGR: SD9783766139