Cruck Cottage

CROPTON HIGH STREET SE 7489-7589 SE 7488-7588 (east side) 13/23 Cruck Cottage 14/23 GV II

House. Early C18 with later alteration and extension. Cruck-framed, encased in coursed rubble limestone, spray-rendered, with pantile roof and brick stacks. 2-cell, gable-entry plan, extended later into former outbuildings at rear. 2 storeys, 2 windows. Entrance in gable wall to right. 2-light, 12-pane horizontal-sliding sashes with timber lintels. Coped gables and kneelers. End stacks. Right gable end has renewed board door. Rear single-storey outshut with catslide roof. Interior: inglenook fireplace with hearthbeam and heck; stone chimney-piece with corbelled segmental lintel; Wrelton range dated 1869 in working order, flanked by salt box to left and spice cupboard with panelled door to right. Cross beam with some studding in place. Chamfer-stopped spine beam and chamfered joists. On first floor, a single full cruck truss is visible to the saddle apex. Studded partition separates the rooms. B Harrison and B Hutton, Vernacular Houses in North Yorkshire and Cleveland, 1984; plates 8.39, 9.7; p 188.

Listing NGR: SE7568988998