Colcroft

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NZ 90 SW 11/3

FYLINGDALES Colcroft

II Shown on OS map as Kale Croft. Farmhouse, early-mid C18. Coursed herringbone-tooled sandstone to main house, coursed rubble sandstone to downhouse. Welsh slate roofs, with stone ridge, coping and kneeler, brick and rendered stacks. Through-passage plan. Road front one and a half storeys, two bays and lower downhouse one wide bay. Half-glazed passage door, under modern flat hood, in downhouse, and small boarded opening under eaves. Dairy, projecting slightly at left, has two-light stone-mullioned window with lattice casements and iron bars. In centre bay a stair window and a small two-light window at right under eaves. Stone coping and block kneeler at right right rendered and left brick end chimneys. Rear elevation shows fire window at left but other windows are modern casements in lengthened openings of original mullioned windows.

Interior retains beck partition but fireplace rebuilt. Parlour in front of dairy; original boarded doors.

Harrison & Hutton, Vernacular houses in North Yorkshire and Cleveland; John Donald, Edinburgh, 1984, p235.

Listing NGR: NZ9377602230