House and attached outbuilding, wall and gate pier. Mid C18 with early C19 front and later C19 extensions. Early C19 front of roughcast render over red brick. Hipped slate roof. Single ridge stack, wide bracketed eaves. 2 storeys, 3 bays, the single central bay being canted. Central doorway with C19 panelled door and Gothic glazing bar overlight. Either side are single sashes with Gothick glazing bars. Above are 3 similar sashes. To the rear is a higher 2 storey ashlar range with hipped slate roof and single ridge stack. To the right is a single storey, single bay extension with hipped slate roof. To the left and set back is a 2 storey 4 bay range. The left 3 bays of whitewashed ashlar slightly project from the single roughcast bay on the right. 2 small casements with Gothic glazing bars, to the left is a single tripartite glazing bar Yorkshire sash. The 2 openings on the left in former carriage archways. Above, single glazing bar sash and to the left 3 sashes with Gothick glazing bars. The rear of this wing is Cl8 build. Projecting from the left is a late C19 2 storey painted red brick outbuilding with hipped slate roof and dogtooth eaves. The side wall has 2 pointed arched fixed lights with Gothic glazing bars. The front wall has a single quadripartite glazing bar casement on the first floor. Attached to the rear left is a narrow coped ashlar wall and gate pier with shaped coping. The east/garden front is set on a plinth and has a single glazing bar sash in the single storey extension. To the right are 2 low glazing bar sashes. Above are 2 similar smaller sashes. Fountain Dale is the traditional home of the original of Sir Walter Scott's "Friar Tuck". (NCC/js)