Brow Cot Brow Hill Cottage

FYLINGDALES STOUPE BROW NZ 90 SE 12/178 Brow Cot and Brow Hill Cottage

GV II House and cottage. Cottage possibly the earlier C18 downhouse of a hearth-passage plan farmhouse; house possibly a 1769 rebuild of the upper end. Cottage herringbone-tooled coursed sandstone; house lightly-tooled coursed sandstone with very large raised quoins. Pantiled roofs with stone ridge, copings and kneelers, brick and stone stacks. Each 2 storeys, 2 bays, the house of wider proportions. Paired boarded doors in centre of house. Flanking 3-light modern casements in old openings; 3-light windows above retain their flat, stone mullions. Cottage has blocked door at right (probably former passage door) under lintel with big raised keystone. Similar keyed lintels to other ground-floor openings, including door and altered flanking windows, that on left in reduced opening with floating key above, that on right with off-centre key. Tiny first floor sashes under eaves. House has very wide gable copings, and kneelers moulded like cornices; left stone chimney heightened in brick, rebuilt brick chimney at right. Cottage has narrower copings, block kneelers, old brick chimneys at centre and left. Rear elevations: house has long lean-to, the left part modern, the right C19 with modern casement. 2 dormers above. Cottage has early catslide extension with 2 dormers and rebuilt brick end chimney. Houses of the North York Moors, RCHM, p.102.

Listing NGR: NZ9648702172