Cote Syke Farmhouse

Cote Syke Farmhouse is a house dated 1702 and 1735, with a restoration in the mid-20th century. It is built of coursed squared gritstone and has a purple slate roof on the main range, with graduated stone slates on the bay to the right. The building is 2-storey with a 3-bay main range and a single-storey bay to the right. It features quoins. The main range has a 20th-century board door to the right, set in a moulded quoined surround with stepped moulding on the lintel, which bears the inscription "E R I 1702" above a cornice. The windows are recessed and chamfered mullion types, with 4 and 6 lights on the ground floor, and 4, 3, and 3 lights on the first floor, along with an additional single-light window above the door in a stone architrave. Below this window is a stone plaque inscribed with "17 S 35" (William and Susannah Simpson) and a Latin phrase. The right side has a bulbous kneeler and gable coping, while the left has a raised verge with similar features. There are large corniced stacks, one to the left and a banded stack to the right. The single-storey bay has a board door with chamfered quoins on the right jamb, where the chamfer continues across the lintel in an ogee curve. There is a 2-light recessed chamfered mullion window to the right and an inserted 3-light window in the right return. Inside the main range, the main living room on the ground floor right features cyma-moulded chamfer stops on the beams and a former inglenook fireplace. The former parlour on the left has a fine bolection-moulded fireplace, with a similar surround in the room above. The date of 1735 likely corresponds to the insertion of the fireplaces in the left gable, alterations to the main fireplace in the right gable, and the addition of the window with architrave.