Fir Tree

GOATHLAND BECK HOLE NZ8202-8302 19/88 Fir Tree 6.10.69 GV II Incorrectly shown on OS map as The Firs. Farmhouse, now private house. Dated 1728, with C19 and C20 alteration. For John and Elizabeth Cockerill. Squared sandstone with timbered porch; part pantile, part slate roofs with stone dressings. 2-storey, 3-window high end at left of 2-storey, 2-window low end. 4-panel door beneath gabled porch at left of low end, in quoined doorway with chamfered lintel inscribed: C 17 I E 28 Inserted 3-light windows in low end, and one at far left of high end. Remaining high end windows original, of 4 lights on ground floor and 3 lights on first floor. Windows are mullioned with large-pane glazing. Coped gables, shaped kneelers and end corniced stacks to high end; right end stack to low end. Interior. Bressummer, corbelled stone fireplace and spice cupboard niche survive in ground floor room left of entrance. Hartley and Ingilby, Life in the Moorlands of North-East Yorkshire, p1.4.: A.Hollings, Goathland, The Story of a Moorland Village.

Listing NGR: NZ8207802280