Cruck Cottage And Attached Outbuilding

Cruck Cottage and the attached outbuilding are a house and two former byres, now functioning as a house, flat, and outbuilding. They date from the 17th century and were raised and altered in 1978. The cruck frame is encased in coursed limestone rubble, while the rear has been largely rebuilt in limestone rubble. The building features a pantile roof and rebuilt brick stacks.

The structure has a three-cell, hearth-passage plan, with the outbuilding located to the right. The front to the left is single storey with an attic, featuring two windows, while the right side has a single-storey, four-bay range. To the left of the single-storey range, there is a plank door leading to the house, accompanied by a small glazed light and a later inserted fixed-light window to the right, all beneath a continuous timber lintel. Above, there is a small barred window. Further to the right, a plank stable door within a heavy timber frame leads to the former byre, with a similar opening beyond that is now blocked by a small 20th-century window. To the left of the house door, there is a small fixed-light firewindow, with two 2-light small-pane horizontal sliding sashes further left. The attic features two raking dormers with similar windows.

Inside, the single pair of raised jointed crucks with saddle apex, tie, and collar beams have been preserved between the two rooms on the left. The studding on both the ground and first floors has been retained, including some lath and plaster infill above the tie beam. In the first ground-floor room to the left, the heck and bressummer are intact, along with a spice cupboard that has a raised and fielded panelled door to the right of the fireplace. The second room to the left has a massive spine beam, and there are roughly chamfered square section beams throughout the ground floor. Plank doors have been retained throughout the house, with one on each floor featuring massive timber lock boxes. The North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Building Study Group has documented this property in reports numbered 324 and 887 from 1967 and 1980, respectively.