Scales House And Attached Outbuilding

Scales House and the attached outbuilding date from the early 17th century, with alterations made in the mid to late 18th century. The buildings are constructed from coursed squared gritstone and feature a graduated stone slate roof. The house is two stories high with three bays and follows a lobby-entrance plan. The outbuilding, which is also two stories and has two bays, includes a left bay that is now part of the house.

The main range of the house has a central 20th-century glazed door framed by chamfered quoined jambs and a shallow triangular-headed lintel, which may have been renewed. On either side of the door are paired 20-pane unevenly hung sash windows set in chamfered surrounds. The first floor features a central oval window with a single pane, flanked by three-light recessed chamfered mullion windows. In these windows, the left light is blocked, and the right mullion has been removed to accommodate 15-pane unevenly hung sashes. The top two eaves courses of the roof are slightly set back.

A large central banded ridge stack is present on the main range. The lower range to the left has a 20th-century glazed porch that covers a former byre door in a plain surround. Another byre door is located far right and features a diagonally-tooled lintel. To the right of the porch, there are two-light recessed chamfered mullion windows on both the ground and first floors, where the mullion has been removed to allow for the insertion of 4-pane sashes on the ground floor and 9-pane sashes on the first floor. A central first-floor board door is set in a plain surround, and there is a corniced ridge stack to the left of center.

The name "Scales" has historical significance, with Isolda de Scales recorded in the 1379 Poll Tax return for Askwith.