Watson Farmhouse

NY 42 NW GREYSTOKE GREYSTOKE GILL

15/109 Watson Farmhouse

II*

Farmhouse. Late C18. Painted stucco walls with string course, eaves cornice and V-jointed quoins, on chamfered plinth. Graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and kneelers; banded sandstone chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 2 bays with lower flanking lean-to wings, that to right extending at rear. House has sash windows with glazing bars intersecting in round heads, those on right Venetian windows, all in stone surrounds. Wings have C20 doors in alternate-block surrounds with keyed lintels, the left door under sash window and the right one under smaller casement window. Right return wall has large C20 door in segmental arch of alternate blocks and C20 casement windows in C19 stone surrounds. Interior of exceptional quality. Oak panelled doors and architraves throughout; oak turned stair balusters. Principal room has stone heck post, and panelled fire beam with cupboards built into inner face; good spice and salt cupboards. Corner dresser and delft rack with moulded cornice, all built in. Staircase squint to kitchen, curved slopstone in former dairy. Panelled window shutters on ground-floor.

Listing NGR: NY4447929530