Long Croft is a historic house in Cowling, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.
The building was constructed in about 1700 as a farmhouse.[1] The farmhouse has a parlour cross-wing, a common feature further south, but in Craven only Long Croft and Halton West Auld Hall possess one.[2] The building has an attached barn which is at least as old and may be earlier, although it has no readily-dated features. It was little-altered over the following centuries, and due to this was grade II* listed in 1984.[1]
The farmhouse and barn are built of stone with quoins and a stone slate roof. The house has two storeys and attics, three bays, and a gabled cross-wing projecting at the rear. In the centre is a two-storey porch, the upper storey jettied over a moulded string course. It contains a doorway with a chamfered surround, and above it is a double-chamfered window with five stepped lights and a hood mould. The other windows are chamfered with mullions. Inside, there is a baffle entry, to the side of a large fireplace, and there is a similar fireplace in the kitchen. There is a spiral staircase built of stone, and repaired in places with slate. The roof has a king post truss, while the roof in the barn is queen post.[1][3]
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edit- ^ a b c Historic England. "Long Croft and attached barn (1131807)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
- ^ Harrison, Barry; Hutton, Barbara (1984). Vernacular Houses in North Yorkshire and Cleveland. J. Donald. ISBN 9780859760911.
- ^ Leach, Peter; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009). Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North. The Buildings of England. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-12665-5.