Cragg Farmhouse England, UK

Listed Building Description

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CONSTABLE BURTON HUNTON ROAD SE 19 SE (north side)

3/15 Cragg Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Possibly C14, with later alterations. Sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, artificial stone slate roof. 2 storeys with C17 single- storey outshut raised in C20 to 2 storeys with flat roof; 3 first-floor windows, the second and third in slightly-projecting bays. Quoins. In second bay, part-glazed door on ground floor. 2-light casement windows below deep lintels. On ground floor, part of single-light window surround to left of first window; small blocked pointed-arched single-light window to right of second bay, and small blocked ogee-arched single-light window to right of third bay. On first floor, to right of first window, blocked window of 2 pointed-arched lights under a single lintel. Ashlar coping to right. End stacks. Rear: chamfered quoined doorway to right; 2 blocked single-light chamfered windows on ground floor. Right return: 2 blocked C19 openings. Interior: front wall very thick, especially where bays project. Inner partitions said to have been of woven laths, clay and cobbles, without lime mortar; beams said to be adzed with overlapping joists, also 2 adjacent round archways of different widths in wall between house and outshut on ground floor to left, and roof of black oak timbers.

Listing NGR: SE1691091449