Crow Trees

SD 52SE 9/121

WALTON-LE-DALE, GOUGH LANE Crow Trees

27.11.1972

II*

Farmhouse, now house, early C17 or earlier with later alterations and additions. Gable end to road. Brick with stone dressings, slate roof with ridge chimneystack and chimney at left gable. Three-bay plan with through-passage behind chimneystack; short outshut to rear of 1st bay (modern extension behind this, and addition at right end, not included in the item). Two storeys. Front wall has lozenge-shaped patterns of headers, (3 at ground floor and 8 above); door in 3rd bay, a modern gabled canopy over it; left of door the 1st and 2nd bays have double- chamfered stone mullion windows with hoodmoulds at ground floor (3 and 6 lights); right of door is one flush mullion window of 3 lights, and there are 5 similar windows at 1st floor, all of 2 lights except that in 2nd bay which has 4. Left gable has 3-light double-chamfered stone mullion window with hoodmould on each floor, two other windows, of 4 and 2 lights, and a narrow attic light near the apex. Rear wall has 5 windows, 3 with stone mullions. Interior: a full cruck truss incorporated in partition of 2nd and 3rd bays, one blade having "1689" incised on it; inglenook with stone heck, ovolo-moulded bressummer, salt cupboard and blocked fire window; chamfered beams in 2nd bay, quarter-round moulded in 1st and 3rd bays; open-well staircase of C17 type with barley sugar balusters. Upper floor has evidence of former smoke bay.

Listing NGR: SD5803524463