Stob Green House

EGGLESTON B6278(North side off) NZ02SW 20/2 Stob Green House 16.7.79 II House. Circa 1774 incorporating earlier building. Coursed rubble, the upper storey of smaller stones, with millstone grit quoins and ashlar dressings; stone-flagged roof with stone ridge. L-plan. Main house 2 storeys, 3 bays, the third wider. Left cross wing one storey, with 5 bays on return to one-bay front. Main house has 3 nosed steps up to renewed 6-panel door and fanlight with Gothic glazing bars in raised keyed stone surround with impost blocks, the left jamb with eroded inscription W/IT/FB/1774. Renewed sashes with glazing bars in raised ogee surrounds. Roof gable copings on curved kneelers; 2 end chimneys with bands. Rear elevation shows central blocked door and loft door above. Left cross wing,originally a separate building, now attached by short passage to left return of main house. Inner return has flat stone lintels over renewed doors and windows; inserted vehicle door. Outer return has round opening c. one metre diameter, formed by 2 large stones, at bottom of central bay; perhaps originally an arrangement for disposing of manure.

Source: North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group, report No. 479. (Yorkshire Archaeological Society archives M.S. 1275).

Listing NGR: NZ0035723869