Stones Lane Cottage, The Castle, Castle Barn Cottage And Barn End Flat And Outbuildings

SD 39 NE, 6/33

CLAIFE, NEAR SAWREY, Stones Lane Cottage,The Castle, Castle Barn Cottage, and Barn End Flat and outbuildings

GV

II

Four houses. Late C18 or early C19 with later alterations and extensions. Roughcast stone with exposed stone parts to rear and slate roofs. L-plan, two storeys, south elevation of seven bays with outbuilding to right which has projecting one-storey gabled wing, now converted to domestic use. 1st bay forms Stones Lane Cottage, 2nd, 3rd and 4th bays form The Castle, end bays form Castle Barn Cottage. Windows are sashed, those to Castle Barn Cottage with horns; those to ground floor have vertical glazing bars, those to 1st floor with glazing bars; small-pane French window to 1st bay. The Castle has central entrance with half-glazed fielded-panel door and gabled trellis porch; Castle Barn Cottage has gabled porch. Gable-end stack and 3 cross-axial stacks. Left return has lean-to outshut. Right return has C20 infill panels, glazing and entrance to one-storey wing, gabled wing and gabled barn entrance; rear wing has outshut under cat slide roof, large entrance. Rear has wing to left, 2-storey outshut under cat slide roof, and gabled bay to right. Small-paned casements and one window with small-paned fixed glazing and opening light. Wing, now Barn End Flat, has ground-floor garages and end-gabled projecting bay to return. Small lean-to outshut to gable bay to right. Gable-end stacks. Interior has re-used plank and muntin partition from former house. Property of the National Trust, the gift of Beatrix Potter.

Listing NGR: SD3707395689