Description

GREENHEAD LOW OLD SHIELD
NY 66 NE
11/85 Low Old Shield
Farmhouse
II

Bastle house now a farmhouse. Late C16-early C17 with c.1700 openings on front;
C19 outshut on rear. Coursed rubble; Welsh slate roof; stone and brick chimneys.
Original entry in left gable end. 2 storeys, 2 bays. Huge boulder plinth on
front and returns. Late C19 gabled stone porch with replaced door to left of
centre. Moulded Tudor-arched doorway with run-out stops on front wall inside
porch. 6-pane sash in C19 openings at ground-floor right. Replaced casements
elsewhere in fragmentary double-chamfered surrounds. Window on first-floor
right retains a chamfered stone mullion; possibly re-used Roman wall masonry to
right of this window. Roof has coped right gable. Left end stone stack with
top ledge; rebuilt brick right end stack. Blocked original doorway with
alternating jambs on gabled left return. Single-storey added rear outshut with
pent roof. Interior: 1.25-metre thick walls; both ground-floor rooms have
adzed ceiling beams of heavy scantling; chimney flue inserted in front of
original gable-end entry. Farmbuilding on right return is not of special
interest.

Listing NGR: NY6682066894

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26590189

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)