Paper Mill Cottage
PAPER MILL COTTAGE, CROSS HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150813
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Paper Mill Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- PAPER MILL COTTAGE, CROSS HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150813
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Paper Mill Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- PAPER MILL COTTAGE, CROSS HILL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PAPER MILL COTTAGE, CROSS HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sutton-under-Whitestonecliffe
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 48142 82697
Details
SUTTON-UNDER-WHITESTONECLIFFE CROSS HILL SE 4882 - 4982 (EAST SIDE) 10/34 2/11/70 PAPER MILL COTTAGE (Formerly listed as Mount Pleasant) - II House. Early C16 or earlier with early Cl7 and later alterations and additions and c1980 restoration. Timber frame, nibblestone and brick; pantile roof (probably originally an open hall with rear aisle; floor and stacks inserted). 2 Storeys, 4 bays. West front: nibblestone dwarf wall supports close-studded timber frame, rendered on ground floor. C20 board door to bay 2 with small window to its right. Other windows are C20 2- or 3-light side-sliding sashes mostly in former openings. Timber frame on 1st floor has wall plate spliced at either side of bay 1 and removed from part of bay 2, mid rail higher in bay 3, and braces from the two left-hand posts to the eaves plate. Roof hipped at right end. Brick stack at left end and to ridge over door. Left return is of stone with quoins on right; right return of brick on nibblestone base; rear aisle clad in later brick. Interior: timber frame survives well having 4 trusses with jowelled posts braced to wall plates and tie beams (some braces now removed); sooted rafters probably indicating an original open hall; and early Cl7 groove-decorated plank and muntin panelling on both floors between the central and right-hand cells. The central room has: an Inglenook with salt cupboard, chamfered bressummer and cyma-stopped chamfered headpost on padstone; renewed timber-framing of front wall revealed in inglenook; and chamfered joists. Left-hand room has: another large inglenook with spice cupboard, cambered broach-stopped bressummer headpost and recreated aisle wall; and moulded joists. Panelling has been removed fromn the rear of the lst-floor right-hand bays and a wattle and daub partition wall from between the two lst-floor left-hand bays. The roof was formerly thatched. North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group, Report No. 75.
Listing NGR: SE4814282697
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 332568
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report in North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report, Vol. 75, ()
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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