Whitekeld And Barns Adjoining

The property comprises a farmhouse and associated barns, dating to the early 18th century. The farmhouse incorporates elements of an earlier 17th-century house and barn. A window lintel is inscribed with the initials I.P. and the date 1667. A barn doorway is inscribed with the letters J & S M (?) and the date 1733. Alterations are recorded on two stones with the dates W.W. 1787 and I.D. 1806.

The farmhouse has incised cement rendered walls, set beneath a graduated greenslate roof, with roughcast chimney stacks. The barns are constructed of mixed calciferous and pink sandstone rubble, with graduated greenslate roofs, some of which have been replaced with 20th-century tiles. The buildings form an overall U-shape. The main façade features a recessed panelled door within a shouldered architrave, which has a pulvinated frieze and scrolled pediment. There are sash windows in painted 18th-century stone surrounds. A further plank door is set within a plain opening, flanked by two datestones. One of the barns/byres has various blocked doorways and openings, replaced with 20th-century doorways and windows. An upper-floor opening has a chamfered surround and a dated, inscribed lintel. A weathered 17th-century inscription is visible on a rear wall. The right barn has a segmental doorway with a dated, inscribed keystone. Further to the right is a cart doorway with a brick surround and wooden lintel, alongside a casement window, a blocked doorway, and slit vents. The rear of the house has a mullioned-and-transomed three-light window.

The interior features panelled doors and internal panelled shutters to the ground-floor front windows. A free-standing panelled press cupboard is in two parts; the lower part is inscribed with the name "John Woodall 1667," and the upper part is inscribed "68" with a space for initials. This cupboard was sold with the house and is believed to be an original feature.