Greyhound House Stable And Barn With Byre Extension

NY 51 NE LITTLE STRICKLAND LITTLE STRICKLAND

15/122 Greyhound House, stable and barn with byre extension

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Farmhouse, stable and barn with byre, a public house in C20, now a private house. Dated and inscribed on internal doorway quoin A.D. 1707; inscription on reused stable lintel A. & I.D. 1711 and rear extension dated and inscribed on window lintel I.D.1732; later barn and byre. Roughcast walls on chamfered plinth, with V-jointed quoins and eaves cornice on house. Graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and kneelers; roughcast chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 3 bays and rear 2-bay extension, with right single-bay stable under common roof and left barn with right-angled byre, also under common roof. House has sash windows in original painted stone surrounds. Stable has doorway with inscribed Tudor-arched lintel. Barn has cross-passage doorway with stone surround over which is part of an earlier shaped and carved lintel. Large plank doors in flat-headed cart entrance. Plank door in stone surround in byre. Interior has original features including early C18 stone-surround doorways but could not be examined closely at time of survey. See RCHM, Westmorland, 1936, p.222.

Listing NGR: NY5638319630