Low Snowden And Attached Outbuilding

ASKWITH SNOWDEN CARR ROAD SE 15 SE (east side, off) 6/8 Low Snowden and attached outbuilding 25.9.81 (formerly listed as Farmhouse north of Low Hall Farm) GV II

House and outbuildings. House dated 1683 with earlier traces, and late C19 roof restoration; outbuildings: late C18 - early C19. Coursed squared gritstone, purple slates to house, graduated stone slates to outbuilding. House: 2 storeys, 2 bays with rear outshut bay 2. Board door right with " I R " quoined jambs, roll-moulding to edges and large lintel inscribed: S . 1683 Recessed chamfered mullion windows throughout, ground floor left of 4, now 2 lights and far left of 3 lights with 1 mullion removed, paired 9-pane sashes inserted into both. Continuous moulded string course above. First floor: 2-and 3-light windows. End stacks - banded to left, large corniced to right. Rear: two 2-light windows to outshut. Interior: remains of an earlier timber-framed building include 2 pairs of timber posts and a bressumer beam over the fireplace which supports a large spine beam and ceiling joists. The date 1683 records the cladding of the house in stone. A fire in the late C19 destroyed the roof of reed thatch and the roof was raised, in red brick at the rear. Outbuildings: 2 storeys, 2 bays with rear extension bay 1 of 2 builds, on down hill slope. Left bay has doorway with quoined jambs reduced to a window, and a square window with C20 frame to left. Right bay: external steps to board door with tie-stone jambs, and a byre door at the lower level, right, with tie-stone jambs; square pitching door above. Right return: square mucking-out door centre, pitching door above:, turned-back kneelers, gable copings. Rear: projecting half cellar has 2 light flat-faced mullion window, the roof collapsed. North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report No 379 (1977).

Listing NGR: SE1803651693