Nutholme

SE 78 NW 8/32

CROPTON Nutholme

II

House. Mid C18, remodelled 1818; reroofed and some alteration later. Coursed sandstone rubble, whitewashed, with pantile roof and brick stacks. 2-storey, 4-window front. C19 board door beneath timber lintel at right of centre. 3-light, 18-pane horizontal-sliding sash to right, and small 4-pane fixed-light fire window at right end. 4-pane sash to left of door, and a 3-light, 12-pane horizontal-sliding sash at far left. On first floor two 2-light, 12-pane horizontal-sliding sashes to left, 4-pane sash to centre and small 4-pane sash right of the door. Coped gable to right. Right end, left-of-centre and centre left stacks. Rear: battened plank door and 4-pane fixed light beneath continuous timber lintel to left; small 4-pane sash with painted timber lintel above. Datestone over door with oval centre panel inscribed: "IW" 1818 for John Wood who married Ann Foxton in that year. Of 2 stable doors at right end one remains, the other has been replaced by a C20 board door in original surround, both with painted timber lintels. Right return: blocked lifting door with roughly-tooled sill and lintel in gable end. Nutholme was the birthplace in 1760 of William Scoresby, a famous Whitby whaling captain; his son achieved fame as an Arctic explorer on his father's whalers, and as a scientist, clergyman and social reformer.

Listing NGR: SE7444887816