Scales House And Attached Outbuilding

ASKWITH HALL LANE SE 14 NE (west side) 10/4 Scales House and attached outbuilding - II

House and outbuilding. Early C17 with mid - late C18 alterations. Coursed squared gritstone, graduated stone slate roof. 2-storey, 3-bay lobby- entrance-plan house with lower 2-storey, 2-bay outbuilding, the left bay now part of the house. Main range: central C20 glazed door, chamfered quoined jambs, shallow triangular-headed lintel, possibly renewed. Flanking paired 20-pane unevenly hung sashes in chamfered surrounds. First-floor windows: central oval window with single pane, flanked by 3-light recessed chamfered mullion windows, the left light in each window blocked, the right mullion removed and 15-pane unevenly-hung sashes inserted. The top 2 eaves courses are set back slightly. Large central banded ridge stack. Lower range: to left C20 glazed porch covers former byre door in plain surround; another byre door far right has a diagonally-tooled lintel. Windows to right of porch, ground and first floor: 2-light recessed chamfered mullion windows, mullion removed and 4-pane (ground floor) and 9-pane (first floor) sashes inserted. Central first-floor board door in plain surround. Corniced ridge stack to left of centre. Interior not inspected at resurvey. The Scales place-name is of some antiquity: Isolda de Scales is entered on the 1379 Poll Tax return for Askwith. H Speight, Upper Wharfedale, 1900, p 168.

Listing NGR: SE1638849327