Bleatarn Park

NY 46 SE IRTHINGTON

9/119 Bleatarn Park

1.4.57 II

Farmhouse. Probably early C17 to rear, with late C17 facade, for the Hetherington family. Rendered walls, stone dressings and quoins; graduated green slate roof with coped gables and kneelers to rear, brick chimney stacks. 2½ storeys, 5 bays. Entrance has moulded architrave and entablature, with segmental pediment and C19 plank door. Small Yorkshire sash windows with glazing bars have chamfered stone surrounds. Cornice incorporates lintels of now filled attic windows: side window shows remains of mullion. Earlier 2 storey house is incorporated to rear under common roof of steep pitch. Whitewashed sandstone rubble walls with battered plinth, probably of stone from the nearby Roman Wall. 3 small original window openings, one with Yorkshire sash and glazing bars, the others are ordinary sashes with glazing bars, all with chamfered surrounds: other windows are C20 in C19 openings. Washhouse extension under common roof to left, has casement window with glazing bars, with the sill a re-used lintel initialled H.W. (Hetherington) and illegible early C17 date, with other illegible initials. This is perhaps the Highstonehouse at Bleterne, referred to in Lord William Howard's Survey taken in 1603, (edited by T.H.B. Graham), 1934, p.27. Listing does not include the other farm buildings.

Listing NGR: NY4663061139