Scriggins, With Adjoining Outbuildings To Front And Garden Walls To Rear

BEAFORD SS 51 NW 7/21 Scriggins, with adjoining - outbuildings to front and garden walls to rear

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Probably early to mid C18, with minor late C19 alterations. Rendered cob with coursed stone rubble outshut. Gable-ended thatched roof, formerly slated over outshut. Rendered end stacks. Plan and development: C18 two-room central-entrance plan (facing former farmyard to south), with central entrance/staircase hall, integral end stack to left and external end stack to right. Continuous outshut to rear, raised by one storey in the C19 (see horizontal straight joint in masonry). Probably C18 short range of outbuildings adjoining front at right angles to left. Two storeys with outshut of one storey and attic and one-storey outbuildings. Exterior: Symmetrical 3-bay front; late C19 three-light wooden casements (in old openings). Central doorway has C19 boarded door with beaded wooden frame and late C20 gabled porch. Outbuildings to left have fixed 6-pane window and 2 boarded doors. Stack in right-hand gable end has projecting semi-circular slate-roofed bread oven. Pair of late C20 eaves dormers to rear outshut. Garden walls adjoining rear of house, of uncoursed stone rubble. Three lengths of wall, adjoining north-east corner of house. Gateway in right-hand wall. Blocked wide gateway in rear wall. Interior: Not inspected. The house forms part of a complete small farmstead group, also including a barn and shippons (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SS5440315936