Description

ASKWITH HALL LANE
SE 14 NE
(west side)
10/4 Scales House and attached
outbuilding
- II

House and outbuilding. Early C17 with mid - late C18 alterations. Coursed
squared gritstone, graduated stone slate roof. 2-storey, 3-bay lobby-
entrance-plan house with lower 2-storey, 2-bay outbuilding, the left bay now
part of the house. Main range: central C20 glazed door, chamfered quoined
jambs, shallow triangular-headed lintel, possibly renewed. Flanking paired
20-pane unevenly hung sashes in chamfered surrounds. First-floor windows:
central oval window with single pane, flanked by 3-light recessed chamfered
mullion windows, the left light in each window blocked, the right mullion
removed and 15-pane unevenly-hung sashes inserted. The top 2 eaves courses
are set back slightly. Large central banded ridge stack. Lower range: to
left C20 glazed porch covers former byre door in plain surround; another
byre door far right has a diagonally-tooled lintel. Windows to right of
porch, ground and first floor: 2-light recessed chamfered mullion windows,
mullion removed and 4-pane (ground floor) and 9-pane (first floor) sashes
inserted. Central first-floor board door in plain surround. Corniced ridge
stack to left of centre. Interior not inspected at resurvey. The Scales
place-name is of some antiquity: Isolda de Scales is entered on the 1379
Poll Tax return for Askwith. H Speight, Upper Wharfedale, 1900,
p 168.

Listing NGR: SE1638849327

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26601717

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