Brereton Cottage Brereton House
BRERETON COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1316155
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Brereton Cottage Brereton House
- Statutory Address:
- BRERETON COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1316155
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Brereton Cottage Brereton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRERETON COTTAGE
- Statutory Address 2:
- BRERETON HOUSE
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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:
- BRERETON COTTAGE
- Statutory Address:
- BRERETON HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Goathland
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 83184 01302
Details
GOATHLAND GOATHLAND VILLAGE NZ824005 20/104 Brereton House (also known as Brayton House) 6.10.69 and Brereton Cottage GV II* Farmhouse and outbuildings, now two dwellings. 1740 rebuilding of earlier house; altered in 1851; subdivided in C20. 1740 rebuilding by John and Elizabeth Cockerill. C19 alteration for John and Mary Scarth. Cruck- framed, encased in dressed sandstone with pantile roofs. 2-storey, 3-window front to Brereton House at right, and 1½-storey, 2-window front to Brereton Cottage at left. Right-of-centre board door to Brereton House in quoined and chamfered doorway with heavy lintel inscribed: C I E 17 40 Left of door is 6-light mullioned window with one light blocked and large-pane glazing to the rest; large-pane fixed light at left end. Windows right of door and on first floor are of 3 mullioned lights with large-pane casements. Cavetto-moulded eaves course. Coped gables and shaped kneelers. End corniced stacks, the right one external. Original cross-passage doorway survives in Brereton Cottage, with quoined and chamfered surround and lintel carved in shallow triangular arch. Tiny 4-pane sash above with stone sill initialled and dated: I M S 1 8 5 1 Inserted board door at far left beneath hammered lintel, with 6-pane casement to right. Remaining ground floor window is 16-pane sash with tooled sill and hammered lintel. Gabled dormers with 2-light, 12-pane horizontal sliding sashes. Coped left gable and block kneeler. Ridge stack towards right end. Rear of Brereton House: 2 storeys, 3 bays, with 1-storey outshuts added to end bays. Outshuts have later doorways and blocked windows in stone surrounds in return walls. Centre bay has partly blocked 5-light mullioned window on ground floor. Right return: 2-light chamfered mullioned windows on ground and first floor, to right of external stack. Interior. Plank cross-passage doors. On ground floor of Brereton House, left end room has inglenook fireplace with plank and muntin heck and stone bench, and chamfered square-section joists. Plank and muntin partition walls between this room and outshut, and centre room. On first floor, plank and muntin partitioning forms passage and staircase walls. Several fielded-panelled doors survive throughout house, including one in left end bedroom on butterfly hinges. Attic door hangs on butterfly hinges. Two pairs of crossed-apex upper crucks resting on ties survive in Brereton House, and one pair in Brereton Cottage. Harrison, B, and Hutton, B, Vernacular Houses in North Yorkshire and Cleveland, pp.119,235: Hayes,R, and Rutter,J, Cruck Buildings in Ryedale and Eskdale, p.49: RCHM, Houses of The North York Moors, pp.71,82,210,231; figs.144,382c.
Listing NGR: NZ8318401302
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 327580
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Houses of the North York Moors, (1987)
Hayes, R, Rutter, J, Cruck Framed Buildings in Ryedale and Eskdale, (1966), 49
Harrison, B, Hutton, B, Vernacular Houses in North Yorkshire and Cleveland, (1984), 119,235
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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