Bent Farmhouse

SD 94 SE SUTTON BENT LANE 5/91 10.9.54 Bent Farmhouse

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Farmhouse, 1658 (datestone). Squared rubble with ashlar above the first floor windows where the roof has been raised. Stone slate roof with 2 chimneys. Two storeys. The entrance side has a contemporary outshut with a 3-light double chamfered window and 2 originally of 2 lights above. On the rear side the windows of the ground floor are double chamfered under a string. They lack all mullions but were of 4, 6 and 2 lights: the central one is broken into by a plain doorway. Above the windows are flush square mullioned. To the left the former stable has 3-light double chamfered stone mullion window brought from an outbuilding at Crag Farm, West Lane. Inside upstairs there is a circular plaster panel over a fireplace with a stylised motif of grapes. The "WAB" of the datestone which forms the lintel of the doorway stands for William and Anne Barrett (A Wood, ed.: Sutton-in-Craven: The Old Community, 1973).

Listing NGR: SD9968244180