Black Bull Cottage

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SE 5075-5175 11/47

HUSTHWAITE THE GREEN (east side) Black Bull Cottage

(formerly listed as The Old Black Bull)

17.5.60

GV II

Inn and cottage, now one house. Probably mid C16, with later alterations and additions. Timber-framed with brick alterations and additions, pantile roofs. Two storeys with rear outshut, two + two bays. Older part on left has brick in English garden wall bond to ground floor with inserted central C20 studded oak board door and a two-light casement window to each side; on first-floor close studding with straight braces from posts to wall plate, and a small two-light casement window in each bay. Central double ridge stack in brick. Right-hand section, probably late C18 - early C19, of brick in Flemish bond, has two casement windows on each floor, those on ground floor with wedge lintels, brick ridge stack to right of centre.

Rear: outshut mainly C20. Left return: projection with pantile roof forming lower gable indicates roof line of a former neighbouring cottage.

Interior: of left-hand section: framing of rear wall exposed, both front and rear wall framing jointed near the central chimney. In the housebody, the fireplace has bressummer with ogee doorhead to lobby and spliced joint over (removed) heck post; spit mechanism fixed to bressummer; run-out chamfered joists. In lobby, low cupboard in side of stack. Wattle and daub smoke-hood exposed on first floor.

North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report No 92.

Listing NGR: SE5188475064