Crabtree House

NZ 10 NE 6/147

GILLING WITH HARTFORTH AND SEDBURY WATERS LANE (south side) Crabtree House

GV II

Disused house. Late C17 with later alterations. Rubble and cobbles, pantile roof. 2 storeys, 4 first-floor windows. Central doorway with ashlar quoined chamfered surround and 6-panel door, hinged vertically in centre to open around inserted staircase. On either side, blocked 2-light mullion windows, and beyond to left and right inserted square window openings with ashlar projecting sills and deep lintels, formerly with sash windows each with 30 small panes. First floor: in centre, 2 blocked 2-light mullion windows, shorter than those on ground floor, and flanking them 2 inserted square window openings as before. Raised verge to left. End stacks, that to left external and with added brick chimney from inserted bedroom fireplace, that to right rebuilt in brick and now serving separate cottage to right. Interior: stop-chamfered beams; ground-floor mullion windows now cupboards, and later ground-floor windows have deep board shutters; in ground-floor room to right, cast-iron range in large inglenook with spere and wooden seat within fireplace; 2 ground-floor doors of 2 fielded-panels. The house originally was of through-passage plan, but the rear door has been blocked and the plan changed by the formation of a central staircase, probably at the same time the eaves were raised.

Listing NGR: NZ1677205287