Grayrigg Foot With Attached Outbuilding

Grayrigg Foot is a house dating from the mid to late 17th century, with some early 18th-century alterations. It has an attached outbuilding that is likely from a later date. The building is constructed from stone rubble, with the house being roughcast and a slate roof, while the outbuilding features a corrugated iron roof.

The house is designed in an L-plan and has two storeys. The south elevation consists of six bays, with blocked windows in the third and fifth bays. A drip course runs above the ground floor. The windows are cross casement style with opening lights; notably, the fifth bay has a three-light window on the ground floor, which includes a king mullion and an inner post. The entrance is located in the third bay and is accessed via a 20th-century glazed gabled porch. The house features cross-axial and gable-end stacks.

The attached outbuilding has its own entrance and two windows. The east return of the house has three bays with a drip course above the first floor. The windows vary in style, including casements, and there is an attic window in the first bay. The north elevation shows a gable-end stack on the east wing, along with the attached outbuilding and a lean-to outshut on the right return. The stair bay is slightly higher than the next two bays and has a raking roof with a narrow casement window. Two bays feature fixed glazing with opening lights or sashed lights. The entrance is also located here. The outbuilding on the right has a re-entrant lean-to outshut and an entrance to the right, along with a first-floor entrance accessed by steps and small lights. The west return includes lean-to pigsties.

Inside, the property features chamfered beams, and the staircase has turned balusters, square newels, and moulded handrails. There is a blocked two-light wooden mullioned window at the top of the stair. The attic contains a two-panel door and four collar trusses, two of which have sawn-through tie beams supported by posts and braces on the north side. The south side of the attic has six blocked three-light wooden chamfered mullioned windows, some of which retain leaded glazing with diamond quarries and ornamental designs. The east wing includes upper cruck trusses and two blocked two-light windows with intermediate bars.