| Description | 7 and 9, Peter Row, Cragg Vale, Cragg Vale (SE 00610 23762). Pair of late 18th century cottages
The southern two of the cottages of Peter Row were the subject of an archaeological assessment by Lucy Caffyn in 1982 for the WYAS/RCHME Workers' Housing Survey. The photographic images and fieldwork plans produced by the assessment are held by WYAAS. The fieldwork report is transcribed below:
'This pair of small stone cottages faces west, over the Cragg Brook Valley. They appear to date from the second half of the 18th century, and are adjoined on the north end by three slightly larger latter and slightly larger cottages.
The coursed stone is watershot, the roof of stone slates. The doors have stone surrounds with interrupted jambs; the three light mullioned windows have stone surrounds. The mullions are splayed on the inside. There are quoins at the corners.
The cottages each consisted originally of a one unit room with bedroom over. Partitions and a staircase were added, probably in the second half of the 19th century; and a sink in a wall cupboard next to the fireplace in no.9. The cottages have been made into one at some stage. The doors of each lead straight into the living room. Only this room is heated. In the gable wall of no.9 there is a blocked doorway, next to the fireplace. This is now hidden by a lean to outbuilding, but this seems to post date the doorway, which probably, therefore, was a second external door.
These cottages are remarkable for their narrowness (just over 3m wide)
Ceiling heights: Ground 2.39m. 1st floor 2.49m.
(Caffyn, L. (WYAS/RCHME). 1982. '7 and 9 Peter Row, Cragg Vale, Mytholmroyd, Halifax').
The other cottages in Peter Row are treated as a separate record (see PRN12317). |