Hill The Old House At The Hill

SEDBERGH

SD6692 JOSS LANE 162-1/17/314 (East side) 14/06/84 The Old House at the Hill (Formerly Listed as: c JOSS LANE Hill)

GV II

Small cruck-framed farmhouse, now house. Probably C16, walls recently partly re-built; restored and extended. Roughly-coursed mixed rubble, steeply-pitched slate roof. Three-bay plan on east-west axis. EXTERIOR: now. 1.5 storeys. The south front has a doorway towards the right-hand end, a rectangular wlndow to the right and 3 windows to the left (that in the centre with a plain stone mullion). Roof very steeply pitched to this side. Gable chimney to left. Two small attic windows in left gable. Recent single-storey extension attached at this end). Rear, 2-storeyed, with stone slate band, recent gabled porch at -right-hand end, very small square breather opening above this, stair-window in centre {interrupting the slate band) one small square window at ground floor. to left and 2 small inserted windows at lst floor. INTERIOR: 2 full cruck trusses of large scantling, that at the west (upper) end with tie-beam which has arched undercutting for a former doorway at its north end, the other now lacking a tie-beam, but both with collars and vacant housings and mortices of former purlins with down-braces. Between the 2 trusses is an chamfered lateral beam with stops at both ends, and at the west gable wall a good mid-C18 stone fireplace with corbelled lintel and moulded cornice.

Listing NGR: SD6609992446