Pond Cottage And Attached Outbuilding

NORTH YORKSHIRE SCARBOROUGH 5341

SE 99 SE SILPHO THE VILLAGE (west side)

4/80 Pond Cottage and attached outbuildings

GV II

Originally longhouse with byres; now cottage and outbuildings. Early C17; raised and extended later; further alterations in C19. Coursed sandstone rubble with roughly-tooled quoins; pantile roof with brick stacks, one rebuilt. 3-cell, hearth-passage plan: outshut added and extended. Single- storey and attic, 3-window front to house; 2 single-storey, single-bay byres attached to left. Plank door to house, and horizontal-sliding sashes to ground floor, of 3-lights to right of door and 2-lights to left and end right. Similar small window of 2-lights inserted beneath eaves to left of door, and 2 half-dormers to right with scalloped bargeboards and pointed 4- pane sashes. Timber lintels to ground-floor openings. Plank doors to byres, with heavy plain lintels. Coped gables. End right and right of centre stacks. Interior: in room to right of cross-passage a complete fireplace with bressumer, heck and witch post, and hearth bench survive. The carved witch post is an extremely rare survival of a folk object largely restricted to North-East Yorkshire. Hartley and Ingilby, Life in the Moorlands of North-East Yorkshire, 1972; pp8-9; fig 1. North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group, Report No H881, 1970.

Listing NGR: SE9648092065