Description

CLAIFE COLTHOUSE
SD 39 NE
The Cragg, Cragg
6/22
Cottage and barn
25.3.70
II*

2 houses and barn. Court cupboard inscribed: "WSA/1695". Stone rubble, the
houses roughcast, slate roofs; small extension to rear retains wrestler slates.
The Cragg of 2 storeys and 4 bays. Slate dripcourse. Windows have small-paned
fixed glazing with opening upper lights, but 3rd and 4th bays of ground floor
have inserted C20 windows. Gabled slate slab porch. Gable-end stacks, that to
right hand end has round shaft. Rear has gabled wing with small gabled outshut
which has wrestler ridge slates. Casement windows to wing, 2 wooden mullioned
stair windows of 2 lights to 3rd bay and window with small-paned fixed glazing
to end bay. Interior has chamfered beams, plank and muntin partitions and court
cupboard. Barn adjoins to west has pivoted doors under cat slide pentice with
later entrance to right. West gable end has dripcourse, obscured by ivy. Cragg
Cottage adjoins barn to south, parallel with road, and has dripcourse continuous
with that on barn. 2 storeys and 3 bays; casement windows and central
entrance. 2 cross-axial stacks. The Cragg has historical connections with the
Society of Friends and was the home of ancestors of John Bright.

Listing NGR: SD3594198535

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17544019

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Recommended Books

• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)