Scow Cottage And Attached Outbuilding And Garden Wall

NORWOOD BRAT LANE SE 25 SW (north side) 7/76 Scow Cottage and attached outbuilding and garden wall 22.11.66 (formerly listed as scow Cottage and outbuildings) GV II

House. Dated 1619 with late C17 alterations and C20 restoration. Coursed squared gritstone, graduated stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 2 bays with central single-storey gabled open porch. Porch: incised single-piece segmental arch to doorcase on moulded imposts; ball finial to gable. Inner door of 4 panels; shallow triangular doorhead with lintel inscribed "IAP 1619". Recessed chamfered mullion windows throughout plus returned hoodmould to 2 large ground-floor windows; single light to left of porch; ground floor left - a 5-light window, the right light blocked; to right of porch al-light window, 1 mullion removed. First floor, left - 5 lights, reduced to 4; right - 5 lights; these windows are shorter than those to ground floor and are set under deep eaves. Bulbous kneelers, gable copings, end stacks, that to left corniced, that to right reduced. Interior: main room to right of entrance: fireplace of 2 main phases: wooden bressumer beam "(I)668" supported by chamfered stone jambs with inscription (A)MP ; probable base of stone stairs to right of fireplace; ogee head to oven entrance. Ground floor, left: parlour fireplace with cambered arch and syma-moulded chamfer. The inner faces of the jambs to both ground-floor windows have slots and holes into which horizontal bars could be fitted. A spine beam carries the upper floor. First floor, right: the stone fireplace has a " A P " plaque with an inscrition: M . An important house because of the 1668 survival of a dated stone chimney providing heated rooms on ground and first floor. Garden wall to left and enclosing front garden: approximately 3 metres high to left of house, pierced by a gate with a (probably imitation) lintel carved with the date 1619. The wall steps down to approximately 1.25 metres high as it follows a curve to enclose the front garden; chamfered coping stones. Outbuilding at right angle to right: possibly late C18 reusing C17 masonry. 1 storey, 4 bays; roll moulding to doors bays 2 and 4, both with tie-stone jambs; recessed chamfered windows, of 2 lights to bay l and of 4 lights to bay 3. Gable copings, reduced stack to left. Interior not inspected. North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report No 402 (1978).

Listing NGR: SE2003752160