Brereton Cottage Brereton House

GOATHLAND GOATHLAND VILLAGE NZ824005 20/104 Brereton House (also known as Brayton House) 6.10.69 and Brereton Cottage GV II* Farmhouse and outbuildings, now two dwellings. 1740 rebuilding of earlier house; altered in 1851; subdivided in C20. 1740 rebuilding by John and Elizabeth Cockerill. C19 alteration for John and Mary Scarth. Cruck- framed, encased in dressed sandstone with pantile roofs. 2-storey, 3-window front to Brereton House at right, and 1½-storey, 2-window front to Brereton Cottage at left. Right-of-centre board door to Brereton House in quoined and chamfered doorway with heavy lintel inscribed: C I E 17 40 Left of door is 6-light mullioned window with one light blocked and large-pane glazing to the rest; large-pane fixed light at left end. Windows right of door and on first floor are of 3 mullioned lights with large-pane casements. Cavetto-moulded eaves course. Coped gables and shaped kneelers. End corniced stacks, the right one external. Original cross-passage doorway survives in Brereton Cottage, with quoined and chamfered surround and lintel carved in shallow triangular arch. Tiny 4-pane sash above with stone sill initialled and dated: I M S 1 8 5 1 Inserted board door at far left beneath hammered lintel, with 6-pane casement to right. Remaining ground floor window is 16-pane sash with tooled sill and hammered lintel. Gabled dormers with 2-light, 12-pane horizontal sliding sashes. Coped left gable and block kneeler. Ridge stack towards right end. Rear of Brereton House: 2 storeys, 3 bays, with 1-storey outshuts added to end bays. Outshuts have later doorways and blocked windows in stone surrounds in return walls. Centre bay has partly blocked 5-light mullioned window on ground floor. Right return: 2-light chamfered mullioned windows on ground and first floor, to right of external stack. Interior. Plank cross-passage doors. On ground floor of Brereton House, left end room has inglenook fireplace with plank and muntin heck and stone bench, and chamfered square-section joists. Plank and muntin partition walls between this room and outshut, and centre room. On first floor, plank and muntin partitioning forms passage and staircase walls. Several fielded-panelled doors survive throughout house, including one in left end bedroom on butterfly hinges. Attic door hangs on butterfly hinges. Two pairs of crossed-apex upper crucks resting on ties survive in Brereton House, and one pair in Brereton Cottage. Harrison, B, and Hutton, B, Vernacular Houses in North Yorkshire and Cleveland, pp.119,235: Hayes,R, and Rutter,J, Cruck Buildings in Ryedale and Eskdale, p.49: RCHM, Houses of The North York Moors, pp.71,82,210,231; figs.144,382c.

Listing NGR: NZ8318401302