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placename:- Cragg, The
parish Claife parish, once in Lancashire
county:- Cumbria
building/s
coordinates:- SD35949853
10Km square:- SD39
References Listed Buildings 2010

1Km square SD3598

database:- Listed Buildings 2010

Listed Buildings 2010

courtesy of English Heritage
THE CRAGG, CRAGG COTTAGE AND BARN / / / CLAIFE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 76727 / SD3594198535
courtesy of English Heritage
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.

placename:- Cragg, The
district:- South Lakeland
listed building -- barn
coordinates:- SD35949853
date:- 2010
period:- 2010s

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