Lane House And Attached Barn

Lane House and attached barn are a mid to late 17th-century house and barn, with 18th-century extensions and alterations. Constructed of coursed and uncoursed gritstone rubble, the building is roofed with graduated stone slate. The house and barn were originally built as one long range, forming an L-plan with a projecting gabled bay at the east end of the barn.

The main range of the house is two storeys and three bays, with a recessed bay added to the left. The original doorway has been replaced, and a six-pane sash window is located to the left. The doorway features chamfered quoined jambs, the chamfer continuing across the lintel as two arcs with the initials “W B” in relief below. A doorway has been inserted to the right, with tie-stone jambs and a plain lintel. Chamfered mullion windows, originally with four and three lights to the ground floor (with two mullions removed from the left window), and two three-light windows of similar form to the first floor, are also present. The building has a gable coping, an end stack, and a ridge stack between bays two and three. The recessed bay to the left has a board door in a plain surround and an inserted window, with hollow-moulded kneelers and a gable coping, finishing with an end stack.

The barn features a narrow 17th-century doorway to the left, with quoined jambs and lintel; a wide barn entrance with double board doors, with a raised lintel flanked by a lean-to 18th-century calf house and stable. Each of these has a board door in a plain surround and small square windows. The projecting bay on the right has a chamfered quoined doorway with a plain lintel. Five vents or scaffolding holes and a rectangular owl hole are visible at the apex of the gable.

The rear facade, facing the road, shows the projecting added west bay of the house with massive quoins. A wide barn doorway is present with long and short quoins to the jambs. Its triangular head has been reduced to a narrower entrance with a plain surround, adjacent to a narrow door to the right. Small chamfered house windows, two to the ground floor and one to the first floor, are also present. The left return, the added bay, features tall three-light flat-faced mullion windows to both ground and first floors, reduced in height.

Inside the barn, three fine king-post trusses with longitudinal braces to the ridge and two tiers of trenched purlins are visible. The house itself was not inspected during a resurvey. This is a rare survivor of a 17th-century small farmhouse range, built close to the road between Kildwick Grange and Silsden. Originally, the house followed a lobby-entry plan, with the main door opening onto the side of a deep fireplace (possibly surviving), and a byre doorway between the house and barn. 18th-century alterations altered the plan, including an entrance bay and an inserted doorway to the far right, along with a second stack to serve more heated rooms, suggesting a possible division of the house between two generations or families. The barn was originally large, with cart access from the road, reduced in the 18th century to a narrow doorway, likely for threshing, when further animal accommodation was added under outshuts on the south side. The tall windows in the added bay suggest a need for extra light, potentially indicating the bay was added as a small weaving shed.