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YORKSHIRE VERNACULAR BUILDINGS STUDY GROUP www.yvbsg.org.uk Newsheet No 54 November 2008 YVBSG Events For Your Diary Crucks and Cruck-Framed Buildings Annual Recording Saturday 14 March 2009 Conference At the annual day school, to be held Friday 15 to Sunday 17 May 2009 again this year at Leeds Metropolitan In 2009 we return to the Yorkshire Dales University Headingley Campus, we for our annual conference, which will shall take a look at cruck-framed be based in Carlton-in-Coverdale. Full buildings. A booking form is enclosed details in the new year. with this Newsheet. The YVBSG will hold its AGM Visit to Roundabout Farm, immediately after the talks as usual. Nidderdale Visit to Padside Hall Spring/summer 2009 Kevin Illingworth is organising a visit Sunday 15 March 2009 to this small, late seventeenth century YVBSG member Ray Wilson has kindly agreed to welcome a party of members to farmhouse near Pateley Bridge. Original his home, Padside Hall, Braithwaite, Harrogate. The current building is said to features include bressumer beam and date from the late 16th or early 17th century with later alterations and evidence of stone heck, which has an integrated a possible 14th century tower. The site has previously been owned by the Ingilbys stone settle with armrest. Peep-hole in of Ripley Castle and the Wigglesworths of Craven. The visit will start at 2pm, with the wall. Outside, the doorway has a optional lunch beforehand at the Stonehouse Inn, near Thuscross, at 12.30pm. battlemented doorhead and the owl Numbers are restricted – to reserve your place and obtain directions, please contact hole is decorated. Garden (1988-2008) Malcolm Birdsall (contact details on back page) indicating whether you require has large imported rocks and a secret lunch. pond. This could be a full-day event, with a visit to another building. More East Keswick Study Day Next committee meeting details later. Sunday 26 April 2009 The next committee meeting will be A day which will probably include talks, held on Sunday 1 February 2009. If We wish a Merry Christmas and a walks and recording training sessions. you’d like to raise any matter or suggest very happy 2009 to all members! Details in the next Newsheet. any events please contact David Crook. Thank you! Timber-Framing in the East Riding Our thanks go to .. Following the recent successful dendrochronology of the cruck frame at Glebe Farm, Octon, near • Malcolm Birdsall for organising a Driffield, the need for a wider systematic and very enjoyable conference review comprehensive survey of timber-framed buildings day in Burnsall and Thorpe in has been recognised. The cost of this type of survey September – see Adrian Bailey’s is well beyond the finances of the YVBSG, but we notes on back page. have been informed that such a survey would be a • Tish Lawson for arranging a very good type of project to attract lottery funding. successful recording day in Idle in The committee has agreed that the YVBSG should lead a partnership with other October – recording teams are still agencies, including the Humber Archaeology Partnership, to apply for ‘Your puzzling over their respective Heritage’ funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The working project objective buildings! would be to complete the recording of all surviving timber-framed buildings within the area of the historic East Riding of Yorkshire and the City of Kingston • David Cook for putting together an upon Hull and undertake dendrochronology to determine dates where possible. excellent afternoon at York House in Malton in October, where we had We invite anyone who is interested and feels capable of leading or making a a tour of this intriguing building significant contribution to the project to contact the YVBSG Chairman before and heard about the application of Friday 12 December. Thank you, new technologies in recording. David Cook Other events of possible interest ... Some of these events are publicised a long time in advance, so it’s worth checking that they are still running before you go! Super Structures Recent Work at Sheriff Hutton Castle Inside a Lake District Farmhouse Until Saturday 17 January 2009 Wednesday 18 February 2009 Monday 9 March 2009 An exhibition celebrating architecture Talk by Ed Dennison to joint meeting of Talk by Andrew Lowe to Kirkby in the Oldham area, from terraced Yorkshire Architectural and York Lonsdale and District Civic Society at houses to timber-framed halls, from Archaeological Society with Friends of The Institute, New Road, Kirkby Roman forts to tower blocks. Includes York Archaeological Trust at Friends Lonsdale at 7.30pm. Admission charge, scale models and objects such as Meeting House, Friargate, York at includes tea and biscuits. Contact Dilys datestones. At Gallery Oldham, 7.30pm. www.yayas.free-online.co.uk. McLoughlin, telephone 015242 71164. Greaves Street, Oldham OL1 1AL, Reading Old Houses Recent Research on Hornby and www.galleryoldham.org.uk, telephone Whorlton Castles 0161 770 4653. Open Monday to Thursday 19 February 2009 Saturday 10am to 5pm, free. Talk by Don McLellan to Malhamdale Tuesday 10 March 2009 Local History Group at Malham Village Talk by Erik Matthews to Northallerton Christmas Lunches at Borwick Hall Hall, 8pm. Visitors £2. Contact and District Local History Society, 7pm Between 6 and 19 December 2008 Rosemary Bundy on 01756 748220. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church Hall, Borwick Hall (7 miles north of Lancaster) Thirsk Road, Northallerton. Enquiries: North Yorks Historic Environment Day is an outdoor educational centre mainly Mike Sanders, telephone 01609 774662. for young people, but also for adults. It Saturday 21 February 2009 Map Workshop is not normally open to the public, but the Annual event at Northallerton. café sometimes opens in late summer. Enquiries: Mr N Boldrini, Historic Saturday 14 March 2009 Christmas lunches/evening meals will be Environment Record Officer, County Workshop at the Treasure House served on eight dates in December. Hall, Northallerton, phone 01609 532331. (Archives and Local Studies Service), Borwick Hall is a large gabled house of Beverley. 10-11.30am. Primarily looking Recent Survey and Research at Ayton about 1590-5, incorporating a fourteenth at Ordnance Survey and other Castle century pele tower. There is also a published maps with hands-on session. gatehouse range and ‘spinning gallery’. Monday 23 February 2009 £3. To book, telephone 01482 392790. Externally all of these buildings can be Talk by Ed Dennison to Scarborough Recording Old Buildings seen, but interior access may be limited. Archaeological and Historical Society Enquiries: 01524 732508. at 7.30pm in the Concert Room, Central Monday 16 March 2009 Library, Vernon Road, Scarborough. Talk by Dan Elsworth to Ingleborough Longley Old Hall Details from Chris Hall, 01723 354237, Archaeology Group, covering recent 27 to 30 December 2008 www.scarborough-heritage.org. local surveys at the Castle Hotel, The hall will open for pre-booked guided Hornby, and farm buildings at Lupton Life in Medieval Aristocratic Residences tours on the above days. For evening and Biggins Hall. 7.30pm in Ingleton visits the hall is lit by candlelight and open Saturday 28 February and Sunday Community Centre. Web www fires and will have Tudor style decorations. 1 March 2009 .ingleborougharchaeologygroup.org.uk. Cost £6. Please phone 01484 430852 to A day school at Claremont, Leeds. The Buildings of the Yorkshire Dales book. Web www.longleyoldhall.co.uk. Speakers include Steve Moorhouse – National Park Earthwork fortifications into designed The Building Of Harewood House landscapes; Erik Matthews – Hygiene in Wednesday 18 March 2009 Saturday 10 January 2009 the medieval aristocratic household; Peter Talk by Don McLellan to Sedbergh and Talk by Mick Stanley to Harrogate Brears – Medieval cooking. Coach trip to District Local History Society, 7.30pm Archaeological Society, 2pm in the Topcliffe and Cowton on Sunday. Cost at Settlebeck High School. Visitors £2. Friends Meeting House, Queen Parade, £45. Enquiries: Miss J Senior, Yorkshire Enquiries: Elspeth Griffiths, telephone Harrogate, £3 for visitors. Enquiries: Archaeological Society, Claremont, 015396 20677. Mr P Eaton, telephone 01423 886283, Leeds, telephone 0113 245 7910. Seventeenth Century Decorative email [email protected]. Wrestlers, Crucks and Mullions Plasterwork in Wharfedale Local History Resources Thursday 5 March 2009 Monday 23 March 2009 Saturday 17 January 2009 Talk by Andrew Lowe (former Talk by Sonia Wilkinson to Upper Workshop at the Treasure House Conservation Officer for the Lake Wharfedale Field Society in the Town (Archives and Local Studies Service), District National Park) to Galgate Hall, Grassington at 7.30pm. Visitors Beverley. 10-11.30am, £3. A chance to History Group at Methodist Chapel £2. Enquiries: Hanneke Dye, Secretary, look at books, directories, newspapers, Rooms, Chapel Lane, Galgate (four UWFS, The Town Hall, Grassington, journals, poll books and postcards. To miles south of Lancaster), 7.30pm. email [email protected]. book, telephone 01482 392790. Visitors £1.50. Enquiries: Winifred Francis Johnson: Architect Dillon, telephone 01524 751956. Driving Pevsner around Manchester Monday 23 March 2009 and the changes since 1967 Talk by Diana Tasker to Scarborough Saturday 31 January 2009 Archaeological and Historical Society Talk by Tom Wesley to Manchester at 7.30pm in the Concert Room, Central Group of the Victorian Society at Friends Library, Vernon Road, Scarborough. Meeting House, Mount Street, Details from Chris Hall, 01723 354237, Manchester, 1.45 to 4.30pm (includes www.scarborough-heritage.org. AGM). Free. Enquiries: 0161 448 9205. Weather walls, wrestler slates and stone jettied porches Weather walls Stone jettied porches Since the last Newsheet I have discovered two more ‘west gable weather walls’, at Finally, in Newsheet 45 (August 2006) Lawkland, near Settle, and one in Hawes itself. Both houses are unlisted. There are I asked if there were any more stone now reports of another one at Hardraw, near Hawes.