Longridge Farmhouse is a historic building in Bishopdale, North Yorkshire, a valley in England.
The farmhouse was built for George and Elizabeth Dodsworth, and is dated 1653, although its kitchen may be older. The building was Grade II* listed in 1969, along with its outbuilding, which appears to have originally been part of the house, and has been converted into a garage.[1] The farm is a long-term tenancy, and was sold in 1997 for £125,000.[2]
Nikolaus Pevsner simply describes the building as "good",[3] while Yorkshire Life praises its "two-storeyed porch and other fine details".[4]
The farmhouse and outbuilding to the left are in stone with a string course and a stone slate roof. There are two storeys, three bays, and a rear outshut. The middle bay projects as a two-storey gabled porch containing a doorway with a quoined surround, a moulded arris and a triangular head, over which is an initialled and dated inscription. The inner doorway has a similar inscription on sunken spandrels. On the returns of the porch are round-headed windows with a chamfered surround, and elsewhere are double-chamfered mullioned windows, some with hood moulds. Inside, there is a large fireplace with a pointed arch with a salt box and a beehive oven, a triangular-headed fireplace in the parlour, and various exposed beams.[1]
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- ^ a b Historic England, "Longridge Farmhouse and outbuilding, Bishopdale (1318311)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 14 March 2024
- ^ "Dales tenancy over the top". Farmers' Weekly. 5 September 1997. Retrieved 19 March 2024.
- ^ Grenville, Jane; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2023) [1966]. Yorkshire: The North Riding. The Buildings of England. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978 0 300 25903 2.
- ^ Wright, Geoffrey N. (May 1978). "The little dales: 10 - Bishopdale". Yorkshire Life. Retrieved 19 March 2024.