Low Farmhouse

SE 9181 SNAINTON WEST LANE (north side)

12/113 Low Farmhouse

• II

Farmhouse. Early C18; extended and altered later; raised and modernised in C20. Cruck framed, encased in coursed limestone rubble, with pantile roof and brick stacks. Originally 3-cell cross-passage plan later extended into outbuilding to left. 2-storey, 5-bay front, with single-storey outbuilding to left. Board door to centre and C20 stable door to outbuilding. C20 small-pane casements with renewed lintels and stone sills throughout. Centre left and right stacks. Interior. Ground floor: in room to left of the cross passage the fireplace with heck and bressummer survives. In the end room to the right is a stone fireplace with a 2-centre arched lintel and a moulded cornice shelf above. A plank and muntin partition forms a passage to the rear of the 2 centre rooms. First floor: substantial portions of 2 pairs of raised crucks with collars are visible below the ceilings of the 2 rooms to the right. North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report No H882.

Listing NGR: SE9153582177