Arnford Farmhouse
Arnford Farmhouse is a historic building in Hellifield, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.
The farmhouse was constructed in about 1700 as a pair of mirror-image semi-detached houses. Nikolaus Pevsner describes it as "a very remarkable building",[1] and Joan Thirsk argues that it must have been constructed by two heirs to shares of the estate.[2] In the 20th century, the two houses were combined, and in 1958, the building was grade II* listed.[3]
The building is constructed of stone with millstone grit dressings, and a stone slate roof with kneelers. It has two storeys and is eight bays wide. Each house has a plinth, and contains a central doorway with a moulded surround, a pulvinated frieze and a moulded hood. It contains cross windows with hood moulds, and a gabled dormer with a chamfered mullioned window, a kneeler and a spike finial. Inside, there is an inglenook fireplace.[1][3]
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Leach, Peter; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009), Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-12665-5
- ^ Thirsk, Joan (1990). Chapters from the Agrarian History of England and Wales, 1500-1750. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521368841.
- ^ a b "Arnford Farmhouse". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 21 December 2024.