Description

DENT

SD78NW DENTDALE
162-1/11/128 (North side)
14/06/84 Peggles Wright Farmhouse, and
cart-shed attached at north end
(Formerly Listed as:
DENTDALE
Peggles Wright and Barn to west)

GV II

Farmhouse, with attached cart-shed at north end. Early C18,
altered; and the cart-shed later. Slobbered random sandstone
rubble with quoins, and the cart-shed of coursed squared
rubble, stone slate roofs to both. Single-depth plan of 2 wide
bays separated by a lateral entrance passage, on a north-south
axis at right-angles to the hillside and facing west.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and 5 windows (the 1st blocked). The
ground floor has a wide single-storey gabled porch offset
slightly right, with square-headed outer and inner doorways,
the outer now closed by a C20 door and the inner with a pegged
oak door furnished with strap-hinges and wooden sneck;
formerly mullioned windows of 2 and 3 lights to the left with
the stools of former chamfered flush-mullions, and to the
right a similar 3-light window (lacking the stools), all with
slate drip-courses over and all now with wooden casements. The
1st floor has 4 similar 2-light windows, and at the left end a
blocked one-light window. Gable chimneys, both now short, with
slate courses, and that to the left corbelled (corbelling now
covered by the cart-shed). Rear has shallow outshut to 1st
bay, with one small window on each floor, a window at 1st
floor left of this, a small 4-pane fixed window to the dairy
and an oblong 6-pane window above. Attached 2-bay cart-shed,
built to same height, has wagon entrance adjoining house, with
flat-arched rubble voussoirs; and C18 collar truss.
INTERIOR: stone partition walls (to ground floor only, and
that to the left built under a beam) form entrance hall
leading to short dog-legged staircase with closed string and
turned balusters to the upper flight; housepart to left
(north) has large lateral beam, both this and the joists
concealed by C19 tongue-and-groove ceiling boards; south bay
has large lateral beam supporting joists laid on top of it,
and an axial partition making a dairy to the rear. Forms group
with barn facing it approx. 15 metres west (qv).

Listing NGR: SD7259786756

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26663774

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)