Hemplands Farmhouse

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SD 9867 CONISTONE WITH KILNSEY MAIN STREET (west side) Conistone

24/66 Hemplands Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. Dated 1694 with fenestration and additions late C18 and C19. For Richard Wigglesworth, with alterations probably for George Horner. Limestone rubble, gritstone and sandstone dressings, graduated stone slate roof. Quoins. 2 storeys, 3 bays: the central and right-hand bays project under a catslide roof and there is a single-storey porch with lean-to roof in the angle, bay 1. North front (to road): the porch has a 6-panel door, the top 2 panels glazed, in basket arched doorcase with cyma-moulded quoined jambs and single-block lintel; lintel with relief lettering "R. W. 1694" in two recessed panels. Dripmould above is carried round the left return of the porch over a small square window with projecting stone sill. The eaves line of the C17 house is visible above the porch to bay 1. Bay 2: a 4-pane side sliding sash to ground floor; 4-pane fixed sash above, both in plain surrounds. Bay 3: a round-arched stair window with imposts and keystone and slightly projecting surround. Corniced eaves stack, bay 2, rendered rubble stack left; large rebuilt stack between bays 2 and 3; external 2-flue stack behind ridge, right. Rear (south) facade: half- glazed door, the lower half 3-panelled, between bays 1 and 2. Finely carved sandstone architrave composed of hollow-moulded jambs, circular motif in the spandrels, pulvinated frieze and moulded cornice. 4-pane sashes in slightly projecting plain stone surrounds throughout: the sills to the bay 3 windows are chamfered and the 2-piece jambs are of yellow sandstone. Left return: an inserted 2-light window to ground floor; 2 small blocked chamfered windows to first floor above a reduction in the wall thickness which is in line with the top of the left-hand quoins. Right return: the external stack stands on the centre line of the C17 house; there is a small chamfered window with lead cames to right and a blocked chamfered window to left. Two 4-pane sashes to extension, left again. Interior: the large stack between bays 2 and 3 has an original arched fireplace concealed by plaster. The house contains late C17 or early C18 panelling, not seen in detail at resurvey. The notebooks kept by Richard Wigglesworth in the late C17 record the costs of materials and labour when Hemplands was rebuilt (Raistrick p.59) The house was largely completed by 1687 at a cost of about £100 and included one "dubble piped chimney", probably the external west gable stack. The large internal stack may have been part of the earlier house on the site and the 1694 porch probably stood between bays 2 and 3, against the side of this stack and removed when the C18 extension was added. The 2-bay extension provided a staircase hall and probably an east-facing dairy, typical of vernacular buildings in the later C18 in this area. A. Raistrick, Old Yorkshire Dales, (1971). The interpretation of the building is not followed in this report.

Listing NGR: SD9816167350

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Sources

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Raistrick, A, Old Yorkshire Dales, (1967)

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