Armitstead Farmhouse Garden Wall And Adjoining Farm Buildings

GIGGLESWICK SD 76 SE 3/1 Armitstead Farmhouse, 20.2.58 garden wall and adjoining farm buildings

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Farmhouse, c1790 with C17 origins and C20 alterations. Slobbered rubble stone dressings, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays with pedimented central bay which breaks forward slightly. Central entrance in pedimented surround supported by 4 Doric pilasters, fanlight and 2 flanking single-light windows; c1980 fixed lights. c1980 door. 2 ground floor and 3 upper floor tripartite windows with projecting surrounds and flat-faced mullions; 12 pane sashes to central lights, 8 pane sashes to flanking lights. Upper floor sill band. Projecting quoins. Fluted rainwater heads c1780s to left and right of central bay. Shaped modillions at eaves. Gable end kneelers and coping. Gable end ridge stacks. Left-hand return: tall round- headed staircase window with projecting surround. Real: left-hand outshut under catslide roof. Left-hand entrance with c1740s eared architrave; 6 panel door, upper 2 now glazed. Central heightened 3-light ovolo mullioned chamfered window with 8 pane casement and fixed lights. Right-hand former 2-light double chamfered window with mullion now missing; 8 pane fixed light and hoodmould. Interior: entrance hall has 2 Tuscan pillars. Former dining room has C18 fireplace with moulded surround, decorated segmental lintel with fluted imitation keystone; cornice. Garden wall: rubble. Right-hand entrance, bowed front. Adjoining 14-bay range of farm buildings to right contains 4 entrances with C17 and chamfered surrounds and basket arched lintels, and 2 waggon entrances, now blocked to form windows.

Listing NGR: SD7851664852