Pond Cottage And Attached Outbuilding

Pond Cottage and the attached outbuildings are originally a longhouse with byres, dating from the early 17th century, with later raising and extensions, and further alterations in the 19th century. The building is constructed from coursed sandstone rubble with roughly-tooled quoins and features a pantile roof with brick stacks, one of which has been rebuilt. It has a three-cell, hearth-passage plan with an added and extended outshut. The house is single-storey with an attic and has a three-window front. To the left, there are two single-storey, single-bay byres. The house has a plank door and horizontal-sliding sash windows on the ground floor, with three lights to the right of the door and two lights to the left and at the end right. A similar small two-light window has been inserted beneath the eaves to the left of the door, and there are two half-dormers to the right, featuring scalloped bargeboards and pointed four-pane sashes. Ground-floor openings have timber lintels, and the byres have plank doors with heavy plain lintels. The gables are coped, and there are stacks at the end right and right of centre. Inside, in the room to the right of the cross-passage, there is a complete fireplace with a bressumer, heck, witch post, and hearth bench. The carved witch post is an extremely rare survival of a folk object primarily found in North-East Yorkshire.