Description

NY 85 NW ALLENDALE CHAT'S LANE (South side)

9/60 Moor Houses Farmhouse and attached range to west II

Bastle house late C16 or early C17, extended late C17, present house added C19, all now agricultural store. Large rubble with heavy roughly-shaped quoins, stone dressings, stone-slate roof. Rubble stacks to left gable and on ridge, brick gable stack to farmhouse. 2 storeys, 5 bays, irregular. Bastle with extension to right and taller farmhouse far right. Inserted doorway to bastle with remains of original 1st floor doorway above, doorway to extension with chamfered surround, irregular fenestration. Left return (visible inside farm building) shows central byre entrance of bastle with chamfered round-headed doorway. Ruinous outshut to rear. Interior shows corbelled 1st floor fireplace in bastle, 1st floor fireplace in extension with flattened triangular head in square frame, old collar-beam roof truss in extension. Later farm buildings slightly set back to left not of interest. An interesting building demonstrating the development over 3 centuries by successive additions rather than rebuilding.

Listing NGR: NY8497356510

External Links

• Wikidata Q26294881

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