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Baxby Manor
Baxby Manor is a historic building in Husthwaite, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The core of the manor house was built in about 1300. A chimney was inserted and a wing on the right was added in about 1600. The outer walls were encased in stone in the 18th century. The house was grade II listed in 1980. The building has recently served as a farmhouse. From the mid 1980s, part of the grounds were used as an unlicensed airfield. The building has a timber framed core encased in brown sandstone, and it has a pantile roof. At the rear, brickwork covers a base cruck, something found elsewhere in northern England only at Canons Garth in Helmsley. The house has two storeys, a main range of three bays, and a gabled cross-wing on the right. On the front is a doorway, and at the rear is a timber porch. Most of the windows are sashes, some horizontally-sliding, and there is a blocked mullion A mullion is a vertical element that forms a division between units of a wind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cruck
A cruck or crook frame is a curved timber, one of a pair, which support the roof of a building, historically used in England and Wales. This type of timber framing consists of long, generally naturally curved, timber members that lean inwards and form the ridge of the roof. These posts are then generally secured by a horizontal beam which then forms an "A" shape. Several of these "crooks" are constructed on the ground and then lifted into position. They are then joined together by either solid walls or cross beams which aid in preventing 'racking' (the action of each individual frame going out of square with the rest of the frame, and thus risking collapse). Etymology The term ''crook'' or ''cruck'' comes from Middle English ', from Old Norse ', meaning "hook". This is also the origin of the word "crooked", meaning bent, twisted or deformed, and also the crook used by shepherds and symbolically by bishops. Use Crucks were chiefly used in the medieval period for structures such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Listed Buildings In Husthwaite
Husthwaite is a Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It contains ten Listed building#England and Wales, listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the village of Husthwaite and the surrounding countryside. Most of the listed buildings are houses and cottages, and the others include a church, a chest tomb in the churchyard, a farmhouse and a farm building. __NOTOC__ Key Buildings References Citations Sources * * * * * * * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Husthwaite Lists of listed buildings in North Yorkshire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
