Layton House Farmhouse

NZ 1808-1908 12/173 4.2.69

MELSONBY HIGH ROW (north side) No 52 (Layton Lane Farmhouse)

GV II

Farmhouse. Dated 1698 with C19 additions and later alterations. Rubble, C20 pantile roof with artificial stone slates at eaves. 1 and 2 storeys, 1:4 first-floor windows, the main house to the right, a T-plan of 2 storeys, with single-storey outshuts in the angles. Main house: plinth, quoins. In second bay, board door in chamfered quoined surround, with inscription H M A "1698" on lintel, and above, a sundial with spurious painted characters "1646 RN". Ground-floor windows: 6-pane sash with projecting sill and deep lintel on left; 3 side-sliding sashes to right, the first with flush surround, the third in a surround formerly with a flat-faced mullion. First floor: side-sliding sashes, the first and third in surrounds of flat-faced mullion windows, the fourth in flush surround. Raised verge to left; shaped kneeler and ashlar coping to right. Large stack at left end, brick stacks between second and third bays and at right end. To left, C19 single-storey range, with quoins to left, side-sliding sash window with deep lintel, ashlar coping and brick stack to left end. Interior: to right of door, old reused beams and joists; to far right, triangular-headed chamfered ashlar fireplace with elaborately-shaped chamfer stops.

Listing NGR: NZ1967108531