Arts, Crafts And Books House Adjoining Cockpit Cottage

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NZ 9505 17/159

FYLINGDALES Robin Hood's Bay NEW ROAD (west side) Cockpit Cottage and Arts, Crafts and Books house adjoining

(formerly listed as Glengarth)

6.10.69.

II Two houses, one with shop. Early and late C18 with early C19 frontage, later C19 north extension. Coursed, herringbone-tooled sandstone, the extension coursed rockfaced sandstone; Welsh slate roofs, brick and stone stacks.

L-plan: two gable ends of original house and adjoining extension facing road. Left (older) bay two storeys and attic, right two storeys. In left bay two steps up to six-panel door and six-pane shop window of early C19 type, probably reproduction. Above it a small early C19 sash window (missing intermediate bars) and smaller attic casement. Stone gable coping and base of cut-down stone chimney. Right (extension) bay has four-panel door at right and small sash at left. Large first floor canted oriel with lead roof and sash windows. Stepped-in kneelers support gable coping with ball finial on plinth. Stone chimney in valley. House entrance on left return which looks early C18 with more roughly tooled stone on plinth, and very irregular, possibly raised to two-storey height in later C18. Central C20 glazed door. Early C19 flanking sashes, lost intermediate bars, under extended keyed lintels. Two similar windows in right bay. Rebuilt brick ridge stack.

Cockpit Cottage is the return of the L, set back at left: probably late C18. Two storeys, one wide bay. In right-hand corner a six-panel door under overlight with glazing bars. Similar windows, one on each floor at left, with flat lintels. All windows have projecting cills. Lead roof ridge; coping on kneeler and cornice- banded stone stack at left.

Listing NGR: NZ9520305034