| Description | Cottage Adjacent to Dumb Steeple Farm (demolished?), Briestfield Road, Upper Whitley. 18th to early 19th century stone built single storey cottage. The grid reference given (SE 22188 16007) is for the site of Dumb Steeple Farm as the area now seems to be developed by a modern housing estate and no historic buildings could be identified (https://maps.google.co.uk/. Web site accessed 10/10/2013).
This cottage was the subject of an archaeological assessment by Lucy Caffyn in 1982 as part of the WYAS/RCHME Workers' Housing Survey. The photographic images produced by the assessment are held by WYAAS (Caffyn, L, (WYAS/RCHME). 1982). The fieldwork report is transcribed below:
'Originally this property was a stone farmhouse with outbuildings attached (now stables) which is slightly different in style the window sills project, whereas those of the cottages don't; and the doorways have no stone jambs, unlike the cottage. It may be later in date (?) now used as a store room.
It is built of stone (squared blocks of different sizes, with courses of different widths), with a stone slate roof. The windows are sash, with stone sills (flush with wall) and lintels. The doorways (two) have stone surrounds with interrupted jambs.
The cottage has two doors does this indicate there were two cottages? If so they would have been one roomed, as there are only two rooms, lit by windows in front and rear walls'.
(Caffyn, L, (WYAS/RCHME). 1982. 'Dumb Steeple Farm, Briestfield Road, Grange Moor. Nr Wakefield'). |