Cruck Cottage And Attached Outbuilding

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THORNTON DALE MALTONGATE (west side) Cruck Cottage and attached outbuilding

GV II

House and two attached byres; now house, flat and outbuilding. C17; raised later and altered 1978. Cruck frame encased in coursed limestone rubble; rear largely rebuilt in limestone rubble; pantile roof; rebuilt brick stacks. Three cell, hearth-passage plan, with outbuilding to right. Single storey and attic front to left with two windows with single-storey, 4-bay range to right. To left of single-storey range is a plank door (to house) with small glazed light, with a later inserted fixed-light window to right, beneath continuous timber lintel. Small barred window above. Further to right is a plank stable door within heavy timber frame to former byre, beyond similar opening now blocked by a small C20 window. To left of house door, a small fixed-light firewindow with two 2-light small-pane horizontal sliding sashes further to left. Two raking dormers to attic with similar windows. Interior: the single pair of raised jointed crucks with saddle apex, tie and collar beams has been preserved between the two rooms to left. On both ground and first floors studding has been retained and includes some lath and plaster infill above the tie beam. In the first ground-floor room to left the heck and bressummer survive, together with spice cupboard with raised and fielded panelled door to right of fireplace. Massive spine beam to second room to left and roughly chamfered square section beams throughout ground floor. Plank doors have been retained throughout the house, one on each floor with massive timber lock boxes. North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Building Study Group report numbers 324 and 887: Thornton Dale, Cruck Cottage (formerly called Dixon's Cottage), 1967 and 1980.

Listing NGR: SE8335382534