Crag House And Barn Attached

NZ 60 NE DANBY DANBY DALE West side

6/33 Crag House and barn attached

GV II

Farmhouse and barn, probably originally a longhouse, of early C18, greatly altered 1770 (dated on door lintel, for William and Mary Hartas) and said to have been partly rebuilt in 1790 after a fire. Coursed tooled sandstone; pantiled roof (installed 1790 and said to be the first pantiled roof in the dale). Through-passage plan with rear extensions forming reversed U-shape.

Two storeys and attic. 2 bays at right and 2 wider bays at left of passage door with dated lintel. Wide 3-light windows at right have lost mullions but retain roll-moulded keyed lintels, jambs with impost and plinth blocks,and projecting cills. At left of door a 3-light chamfered stone-mullioned window and a small boarded loft door above. Extreme left bay (one storey only) is a barn with Tudor-arched doorway at right, steps up to boarded loft door at left. Appearance suggests that house has been reversed; barn/byre was originally at right of through-passage door and the bay on its left was the house-place.

Stone ridge, copings and moulded kneelers. Corniced stacks at ends of house part and on ridge.

Rear elevation shows 2-stage plinth and scattered small C20 casements. Lower left domestic extension has remains of a 2-light chamfered mullion window. Right barn extension now roofed in corrugated asbestos.

Interior shows original door from cross-passage, fire beams in rooms on both floors, the lower with a panelled spice cupboard, and C18 moulded joists in several rooms.

R.C.H.M. op.cit. p.76 and passim

Listing NGR: NZ6866306182