Description

SD 56 SW CATON-WITH-LITTLEDALE LITTLEDALE ROAD

5/46 The Cragg Farmhouse
4.10.1967 (Formerly listed as Cragg
House)

GV II

House, 1736. Watershot sandstone with stone slate roof. 3-cell plan. 2
storeys with attic, 4 bays. Continuous string on ground floor, interrupted by
doorway, with flat soffit and cyma moulding above. Windows mullioned with
rebate and ovolo moulding. Those on 1st floor have straight drip moulds. All
on the ground floor are of 3 lights, as is the left-hand one on the 1st floor.
The rest are of 2 lights. The door, in the 2nd bay, has an architrave with
pulvinated frieze and cornice. Above is an oval plaque inscribed: 'WP
[William Parkinson] 1736'. Chimneys on gables and between 3rd and 4th bays.
Gables have copings with kneelers. The right-hand (north-west) gable wall has
a blocked 2-light attic window. Continuous outshut at rear, partly original.
Inside, the right-hand room has a shouldered stone fireplace and chamfered
main joists. The middle room has a similar fireplace, but moulded and with a
cornice mantel. The entrance to the stair is flanked by pilasters and has a
dentilled cornice. The dog-leg stair has a closed string and turned
balusters, the lower ones now missing.

Listing NGR: SD5488061776

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26327097

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Recommended Books

• 
  For the Record
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)