Craigs

Craigs is a lobby-entrance house dating to around 1600, with extensions added in the 20th century. The house is timber-framed, with sections plastered and weatherboarded, and has a thatched roof. It comprises four bays aligned northeast to southwest, facing southeast. An axial chimney stack is located in the second bay from the northeast, and an external stack stands at the southwest end. There are single-story extensions at each end, with shingled hipped roofs dating to the 20th century, and a flat-roofed extension to the rear of the southwest end, also from the 20th century. The main building is single-story with attics. A door is situated within a thatched gabled porch at the front, alongside French windows, three casement windows (all 20th century), and a 20th-century casement window in a gabled dormer featuring fretted bargeboards, which retains a 17th-century detail. Some timber framing is exposed internally, and the construction includes jowled posts. Architectural features include arched braces with a shallow inclination from posts to wallplates and tiebeams, inside studs, face-halved and bladed scarfs in wallplates, plain-chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, and horizontal section joists. The roof is a clasped purlin roof. The central stack is constructed from 5cm bricks. An indenture dated 1686, held by the owner, documents the sale of the house and 6 acres by Thomas Marsh to John Cragg, which is the origin of the current name.