Woodmans Cottage

SPAUNTON HALL INGS LANE SE 78 NW (north side) 10/109 Woodman's Cottage - II House. 1695 on lintel, with earlier origins; stack dated 1701; re-roofed and modernised 1913. For Robert or Richard Bowes. Coursed rubble limestone on earlier footings, with roughly tooled quoins; slate roof with brick stacks. 3-cell, hearth-passage plan, with outshut. Single storey and attic, 3-window front. C20 board door to centre left, in quoined moulded surround with Tudor-arched head. Ground-floor windows are large-pane casements, of 2 lights to left of door and 3 lights to right. Resting on door lintel is the plain surround of one blocked original window. Attic windows are gabled half-dormers with 2- and 3-light casements corresponding to those on ground floor. Painted stone sills to all windows and painted stone lintels to ground-floor windows. Date inscribed on door lintel. End and left of centre stacks, that to end right with datestone inscribed: RB 1701 Interior: original house plan intact. In a cupboard under the stairs in the outshut, traces of the original stone spiral stair are visible. Replacement door rehung on original iron strap hinges with zigzag and St Andrew's cross motifs. B Harrison and B Hutton, Vernacular Houses in North Yorkshire and Cleveland, 1984; pp 49, 239; figs 3.11; 12.2.

Listing NGR: SE7241389910