Description

STEEPLE ASHTON DARK LANE NORTH
ST 9056
(north side)
13/227 No 11 (Cruck Cottage)
GV II

Detached cottage. C15, altered late C16, reroofed 1970s. Square-
panelled timber-framing on full cruck trusses, rendered infill,
Welsh slate roof, brick stack to east gable end. Gable end to
road. Two bays. Single-storey and attic, 3-window. Planked door
to centre of south side, 2-light casement to left and two to right.
Two C20 attic dormers. Single-storey extension attached to right
return. Left return blind. Rear has single-light casement to
right, blocked 2-light wood mullioned window to centre, C20 attic
dormers.
Interior has timber fireplace at east end with chamfered jambs and
chamfered cambered lintel, probably inserted together with deep
chamfered beams with stepped stops to first floor, supported on
short jowled posts. Timber-framed cross frame in middle of
cottage. Much of original roof timbers destroyed in 1970s fire, so
evidence for open roof with smoke-blackening now missing.

Listing NGR: ST9084556908

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26544360

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Recommended Books

• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)