Description

NZ 70 SW GLAISDALE GLAISDALE SIDE

11/102 Midge Hall and adjoining outbuilding II

Also known as Glaisdale Head. Farmhouse. Late C17 extended and remodelled in late C18 and early C19; with attached barn/byre of similar dates; House herringbone-tooled coursed sandstone; pantiled roof with stone dressings. Barn coursed small rubble in nearer part, roughly-squared rubble further away; top 5 courses good squared tooled stone of C18 appearance. 2 storeys. Main house 2 bays with a wide, late C18 added left bay. Barn at right 5 irregular bays. Through-passage door, immediately to right of main house now blocked and window inserted; lintel dated 1690, with initials WP and WT, looks reset. 4-pane house door, at right of late C18 extension, has small casement above and 2 sash windows, lost intermediate bars, under broad, stepped, keyed, tooled wedge lintels, at left. Main house has a 16-pane sash and a 3-light Yorkshire sash, both under heavy lintels, on ground floor; and two 16-pane sashes above, with similar lintels and projecting cills. Barn has small chamfered fixed light to right of passage door; then an inserted door and window; at right a stable door in large alternating-block surround. On first floor a small inserted light at left and 5 vent slits above. Roofs have stone copings and curved kneelers. 3 stepped and corniced chimneys to house. Rear elevation of house considerably altered, with 3 wide, raking dormers and a pent extension with 2 modern windows. Other windows various. Near-contemporary lean-to. Through-passage door has chamfered Tudor arch with initials H.H., which look much later than C17. Other openings similar to front of barn. Interior: within the entrance hall a 2-light chamfered stone- mullioned window on the right indicates the external wall of the original house.

C20 right extension to barn is not of interest.

R.C.H.M. op.cit. p.80.

Listing NGR: NZ7437602113

External Links

• Wikidata Q26441515

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)