Hookstone Garth

HAMPSTHWAITE GREYSTON PLAIN LANE SE 25 NE (west side)

4/21 Hookstone Garth (formerly listed as 15.3.66 'Hookstone School Farmhouse')

II

House. Dated 1692 possibly with earlier origins. Coursed gritstone rubble, grey slate roof. 2 storeys, 4 bays. End lobby-entry plan. Quoins. Blocked original door far right now contains a 2-light window. Cyma-moulded jambs and a shallow triangular soffit to the lintel with incised scrolls in the spandrels and a recessed panel with the letters "GSB 1692" in relief. An inserted door to bay 2; recessed chamfered mullion windows throughout but with varied details: bays 1 and 3, ground-floor windows are of 3 lights, short and deeply recessed. First floor: 3-light window to bay 1 with a deep bolection moulded architrave; 2-light window above present door; 3- light window to bay 3 only slightly recessed and with segmental-headed lights. Bay 4, first floor has a single-light window with deep architrave similar to that in bay 1. A continuous dripmould at first-floor level is stepped up over the doorways. Corniced stack to left; banded stack to right. The eaves have been raised by 2 courses, probably when the house was reslated. Rear, left to right, ground floor: rectangular chamfered window, paired segmental-headed lights, an inserted 2-light window. First floor, left: 3-light window in architrave, the central light segmental headed. Interior not inspected at resurvey. The varied fenestration indicates a long and important structural history.

Listing NGR: SE2536658228