Description

DENT

SD68NE DENTDALE
162-1/10/134 (South side)
14/06/84 Rash Mill Cottage and attached barn
to east
(Formerly Listed as:
DENTDALE
Mill House & attached barn to east &
barn (former cottage) attached to
south)

II

Farmhouse with attached barn. Probably late C17 or early C18;
altered. Mixed rubble, the house white-washed, with green
slate roofs on 3 levels (stone slate to wing). U-plan formed
by single-depth 2-unit house on east-west axis with a
single-storey wing projected from the right-hand end (the
barn, former cottage) and the barn forming a crosswing at the
left end.
The HOUSE, 2 storeys and 2 windows, has a single-storey gabled
porch with a square-headed opening protecting a C18 door with
shouldered and fielded panels; a rectangular 6-pane window to
the left with one opening pane, a small square window left of
this, and at 1st floor above these a very shallow oblong
4-pane window; and to the right a 6-pane sash at 1st floor.
Large square chimney to left. The single-storey wing to the
right has a stable door and a 6-pane window in its re-entrant
side, a 9-pane window in the gable wall, and two 2-light
casements in the west side wall. A garden wall links the wing
to the barn. INTERIOR: plank partition wall on timber sill to
right of doorway, with 2 board doors; housepart to left has 2
large chamfered lateral beams with exposed joists, heck to
left screening stone quarter-turn staircase, with stone
wood-hole attached to inner side of heck; complete court
cupboard built into rear end of partition wall, with plain
cupboard doors in the main body, a set-back top stage with
carved doors and oversailing mantel with ball pendants.
Partitioned service end: former parlour on south side, with
chamfered beam, and narrow pantry on north side with stone
shelves.
The BARN, of coursed blue ragstone, has a blocked
segmental-headed wagon doorway abutting the junction with the
house, and a shippon doorway near the left corner. Its gable
wall has 4 courses of through-stones. The east side has a wide
lean-to outshut supported by a cylindrical pier, forming a
cart-shed to the right and a porch to the left, and an outshut
to the left of this.

Listing NGR: SD6593289831

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26663781

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Recommended Books

• 
  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings