The Cragg, Cragg Cottage And Barn

The Cragg, Cragg Cottage, and Barn are a group of buildings dating to the 17th century, located in Claife Colthouse. They comprise two houses and a barn, all originally constructed of stone rubble, with the houses rendered in roughcast and slate roofs. A small rear extension to The Cragg retains distinctive "wrestler" slates.

The Cragg itself is a two-storey, four-bay building and features a slate dripcourse. Most windows have small-paned fixed glazing with opening upper lights, though ground-floor windows in the third and fourth bays have been replaced with 20th-century insertions. A gabled slate slab porch provides access, and gable-end stacks are present, the one on the right hand side having a round shaft. The rear of The Cragg includes a gabled wing and a small gabled outshut with wrestler ridge slates. Casement windows are found on the wing, alongside two wooden mullioned stair windows of two lights in the third bay, and a window with small-paned fixed glazing at the end bay. The interior contains chamfered beams, plank and muntin partitions, and a court cupboard inscribed with “WSA/1695”.

The barn, adjoining The Cragg to the west, has pivoted doors beneath a cat slide pentice, with a later entrance added to the right. The west gable end has a dripcourse, partially obscured by ivy. Cragg Cottage adjoins the barn to the south, running parallel with the road, and shares a dripcourse continuous with that on the barn. It is a two-storey, three-bay building with casement windows and a central entrance, featuring two cross-axial stacks.

The Cragg has historical connections with the Society of Friends and was the home of ancestors of John Bright.