Description

CROPTON HIGH STREET
SE 7489-7589
SE 7488-7588 (east side)
13/23 Cruck Cottage
14/23
GV II

House. Early C18 with later alteration and extension. Cruck-framed,
encased in coursed rubble limestone, spray-rendered, with pantile roof and
brick stacks. 2-cell, gable-entry plan, extended later into former
outbuildings at rear. 2 storeys, 2 windows. Entrance in gable wall to
right. 2-light, 12-pane horizontal-sliding sashes with timber lintels.
Coped gables and kneelers. End stacks. Right gable end has renewed board
door. Rear single-storey outshut with catslide roof. Interior: inglenook
fireplace with hearthbeam and heck; stone chimney-piece with corbelled
segmental lintel; Wrelton range dated 1869 in working order, flanked by salt
box to left and spice cupboard with panelled door to right. Cross beam with
some studding in place. Chamfer-stopped spine beam and chamfered joists.
On first floor, a single full cruck truss is visible to the saddle apex.
Studded partition separates the rooms. B Harrison and B Hutton, Vernacular
Houses in North Yorkshire and Cleveland, 1984; plates 8.39, 9.7; p 188.

Listing NGR: SE7568988998

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26508482

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