Beck Isle Cottage The Thatched Cottage

THORNTON DALE BECK ISLE SE 8383 (north side) 14/83 Beck Isle Cottage (also known as The Thatched Cottage) GV II House. C17, raised, renovated and extended in C20. Cruck-framed, encased in squared sandstone to front, coursed sandstone rubble to sides and rear; thatched roof; brick stacks. Originally 3-cell, hearth-passage plan, with rear service wing added. 1½ storeys. Centre left C20 board door beneath bracketed thatched porch. Single 3-light, small-pane horizontal sliding sash to left, and 2 to right. First-floor windows are eyebrow dormers with similar windows. Renewed timber lintels to all ground-floor windows. Stepped eaves course. End and left of centre stacks, the end left piercing roof pitch. Interior: 3 pairs of jointed full crucks survive, one pair with collar fully exposed in the ground-floor room to right and on the floor above. Parts of one blade only of the other 2 pairs are visible in the rear corners of both ground floor rooms. In the ground-floor room to the right is a butterfly-hinged spice cupboard door finely carved with a lozenge in the centre and a border of rosettes enclosed in guilloche pattern.

Listing NGR: SE8362483147