Description

NZ 70 SE GLAISDALE GLAISDALE SIDE

12/86 Hart Hall 26.8.87

GV II*

Farmhouse. Originally a C17 longhouse (reset datestone 1684); low end rebuilt as kitchen and back kitchen 1768, dated on lintel of cross-passage door with initials A & A C (Andrew & Anne Cook); upper end rebuilt 1797, dated on keystone of blind doorway with initials JC, AC (John and Ann Cooke). Herringbone-tooled coursed sandstone, that in later part of fine quality. Pantiled roof to lower part, graduated greenslate roof on main (later) house; stone stacks, ridges, gable copings and kneelers. Linear plan.

Main entrance front: Downhouse 2 storeys, raised from 1½ probably in early C19, 3 irregular bays and an added outhouse bay at left. Cross-passage door at right 5 panels, top glazed, in alternate- block flush jambs with dated lintel. Modern window to left in chamfered opening, probably once stone-mullioned. Further left a stable-type door to the back kitchen, with reset datestone initialled PC above. Picket gate entrance to outhouse. Two 16-pane sashes on first floor. Large ridge stack, and small chimney at eaves on left.

Main house 2 taller storeys, 3 bays, symmetrical. Raised, chamfered alternating-block quoins, on front only. Central blind doorway with finely-tooled quoined jambs and false voussoirs in extended lintel with dated key. First-floor band breaks forward over keystone, with initials J.C. Flanking 3-light transomed Yorkshire sashes with glazing bars in plain raised surround. Similar first- floor right window, new 30-pane sash at first floor left and blank central window panel, all in raised, keyed surrounds with slightly- projecting cills. Corniced and banded end stacks; curved kneelers.

Right return blank but for small attic window in blocked loading opening. Left (outhouse) return has stable and loading doors. Rear elevation of main house has 2 stone-mullioned windows on each floor, 3-light below and 2-light above. Downhouse blank but for cross-passage door in plain opening at left and a few small windows, 2 inserted; much alteration of masonry at right.

Interior: Cross-passage right wall is original with chamfered doorway to main house. This has good woodwork throughout, doors of 4 fielded panels, panelled window shutters, architraves and dado panelling. In parlour a chimneypiece with guilloche and fret frieze, and cornice; shaped panel above. Flanking round-headed panelled cupboards with fluted pilasters, archivolts with shaped keys; the right-hand cubpoard has domed head and shaped shelves.

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Forehouse has firebeam with deep moulded and dentilled cornice, panels above. Panelled cupboards flank fireplace within alcove. This part of house has joists with quarter-round moulding. Kitchen has chamfered plain fire beam and boarded cupboard on right; cupboard with C17-type small panels at left. Late C18 stone fireplace, with old reckon, in back kitchen.

Roof structure not seen but said to have principal rafters formed from re-used cruck blades, possibly from 1684 house (R.C.H.M. report).

A very good example ofa serial rebuilding, converting a dales longhouse into spacious living quarters while providing separate farmbuildings (q.v.).

R.C.H.M. op.cit. passim.

Listing NGR: NZ7743804977

External Links

• Hart Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17540833

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