Marton Scar Farmhouse

SD 85 SE MARTONS BOTH

1/93 Marton Scar Farmhouse

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Farmhouse, mid C17. Slobbered rubble, stone slate roof. 3-cell house on linear plan. Two storeys. Quoins. 3 chimneys. Three double chamfered stone mullion windows of four lights to each floor; those to ground floor have hoodmoulds and in the first 2 the central mullion has been strengthened. Plain doorway with wooden hood to right of first window, and chamfered doorway to right of second. External stack on right hand gable, and similar windows to rear of 2 and 3 lights. One may have been another doorway opposite the older front doorway. Interior: Some stop-chamfered beams in present living room, formed from two cells. Chamfered segmental fireplace of great width with recesses. The kitchen beyond was until recently sealed off from the house and in agricultural use. The house was owned in the later C17 by Richard Mitchell, a Nonconformist and is associated with the early years of Yorkshire Nonconformity.

Listing NGR: SD8839851400