Description

SJ 98 NE MARPLE THE RIDGE (east side)

7/169 Ridge-End Cottage and adjoining farmbuilding (formerly listed as Outbuildings 20.12.67 at Ridge End)

G.V. II

Cottage and farm building. Farmbuilding probably C17, cottage "NRC 1778" (Robert Cosier and Francis Nicholson) on datestone. Coursed rubble with graduated stone slate and C20 tile roof and brick stacks. L-shaped plan one wing of C17, the cottage wing of 1778. Projecting plinth and coped gables with kneelers to C17 wing which has 4 doors (2 of which are blocked), casement windows on each floor of bay 1 which may have been labourers' accommodation, a 2-light chamfered mullion window to bay 2 and loft hatches on the upper level. The cottage wing has a large cart entry and a 2-bay one-room deep cottage. Both front and rear have 4 window openings with stone heads and sills and C20 casements. The door is now in the gable. Interior: 3 C17 king post roof trusses carry original wind braced purlins, the bracing in some cases being formed out of the same timber as the purlin.

Listing NGR: SJ9650486515

External Links

• Wikidata Q26535271

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