Crag House And Barn Attached

Crag House and the attached barn are a farmhouse and barn, likely originally a longhouse, dating from the early 18th century. The building underwent significant alterations in 1770, as indicated by a date on the door lintel for William and Mary Hartas, and it is said to have been partly rebuilt in 1790 after a fire. The structure is made of coursed tooled sandstone and features a pantiled roof, which was installed in 1790 and is noted to be the first pantiled roof in the dale. The layout follows a through-passage plan with rear extensions that form a reversed U-shape.

The building is two storeys high with an attic. It has two bays on the right and two wider bays on the left of the passage door, which has the dated lintel. The wide three-light windows on the right have lost their mullions but still feature roll-moulded keyed lintels, jambs with impost and plinth blocks, and projecting cills. To the left of the door, there is a three-light chamfered stone-mullioned window and a small boarded loft door above. The extreme left bay, which is only one storey high, serves as a barn and has a Tudor-arched doorway on the right and steps leading up to a boarded loft door on the left. The overall appearance suggests that the house has been reversed; originally, the barn or byre was to the right of the through-passage door, and the bay on its left was the house-place.

The exterior features a stone ridge, copings, and moulded kneelers, with corniced stacks at both ends of the house and on the ridge. The rear elevation displays a two-stage plinth and several small 20th-century casements. The lower left domestic extension retains remnants of a two-light chamfered mullion window, while the right barn extension is now covered with corrugated asbestos.

Inside, the original door from the cross-passage remains, along with fire beams in rooms on both floors. The lower floor includes a panelled spice cupboard, and several rooms feature 18th-century moulded joists.