SEDBUSK An introduction to the built heritage of the village

The village of stands on the north side of White House, a detached building at the south-east roughly-shaped quoins rather than surviving , about 1.5km to the north-east of the corner of the village, has some interesting architectural features. The most architecturally town of , and is set on one of the terraces vernacular features including a cantilevered chimney important building in the area is well away from the which characterise this side of the valley. Its stack and blocked openings with flat-arched lintels. village, and considerably more recent, the fine principal access is by a road that climbs up steeply Whitehouse at the north end of the green is Arts-and-Crafts style Stone House of 1908. from the main road that runs along the north side of probably of the earlier 18th century as well, as may the Dale. There are also minor roads on the same be the much-altered Sedbusk Farmhouse on the west, For a more detailed discussion of stone quarrying terrace as Sedbusk, extending west (Sedbusk Lane) but the evidence of age is in irregular fabric and in the Dales see the essay titled ‘Stone’ in the to join the Buttertubs Pass road, and east to the Themes/Industry section of the website hamlet of Litherskew. www.outofoblivion.org.uk. The Upper Wensleydale area also has many interesting archaeological sites. Sedbusk is a very typical settlement of the northern Visit the Out of Oblivion website and follow flank of Wensleydale. Local quarries produced the the links from the Explore / flagstones used for roofs, and for the huge slabs Upper Wensleydale page. over the outbuilding to Paddock Cottage on the hill below the village. The village is a small and compact one, of around fifty houses. There is a narrow north-south green.

Clustered together in a tight series of east-west rows all facing south, the larger and higher status properties occupy the prime site on the south edge of the terrace where Clematis Cottage and Willow Hey, apparently of 1810, demonstrate their status by having moulded architraves. The earlier buildings are generally of 18th-century date, but few remain in their original form which is why the settlement has no listed buildings. Roofing the outbuilding of Paddock Cottage SEDBUSK Plan showing featured buildings

2. WHITE HOUSE This is an interesting building with large roughly-shaped quoins, a cantilevered stack on its east gable, and remains of earlier openings with flat-arched heads. Beyond it are an interesting series of old garden walls, suggesting that it has been a building of some status.

3. PADDOCK COTTAGE A small and plain house, but with a pigeon cote in its south gable, rather odd moulded 1. CHAPEL blocks forming the sill and lintel of its At the rear of Chapel Cottage is the chapel first-floor window, and the huge sandstone responsible for the name, now a house. flags - a local speciality - forming the pent Its side faces the street, and has a central 1 roof of the adjacent outbuilding on the doorway flanked by tall windows, all with north. ashlar arched heads with imposts and keystones, with ‘Primitive Methodist CHAPEL AD1875’ in a rectangular panel above the door. 2 5. STONE HOUSE Stone House (now a hotel) is a very 3 attractive house of 1908 by P. Morley Holder for Hugh Arden Crallan, Hawes’ 4. MILEPOST ‘schoolmaster and idealist’. Its gables and Outside the village is a cast-iron milepost on mullioned windows reflect an Arts-and- the south side of the main road close to the Crafts adaptation of a 17th-century style, junction at the bottom of the hill that leads up although its influences are perhaps as to the village. This bears the legend much the Cotswolds as North . ‘SEDBERGH 16 MILES/ 4 MILES’ but Its largely contemporary interior preserves has, like the next milepost in the same series a good panelling and other typical features. mile to the west just beyond , been re-set on the wrong side of the road so as to indicate the opposite directions to those intended. On the opposite side of the road a few metres east of the junction is a large 4 stone, square in plan at the base and curved above, which a domed top, which is probably the earlier milestone shown on the 1856 Ordnance Survey map. TO 5 Private Spaces Public Places Village Heritage Project

This leaflet and others in the series were produced by the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority as part of the Private Spaces Public Places project. This European Union funded project was undertaken during 2003-5 in selected villages in the area of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The project’s aim was to enable communities to take a more active role in the management and enhancement of the historic character of their villages, and to promote a common outlook on their future development. An Historic Environment PARTICIPATING VILLAGES Consultancy firm was appointed by the Yorkshire Dales WARD: Grinton and Upper Swaledale: National Park Authority to complete character appraisal WARD: : VILLAGES: VILLAGES: documents in consultation with each community. The Carperby Muker documents include an appraisal of the historic character of West Burton Gunnerside the village, and form the basis for the development of an Thornton Rust Low Row agreed action plan targeting specific enhancement projects. Aysgarth Keld Electronic versions of the village character appraisal Thoralby Grinton documents, along with a copy of this leaflet are available on Newbiggin WARD: Hawes and : www.yorkshiredales.org.uk from the Understanding/Historic WARD: Bolton Manor: VILLAGES: Environment page. VILLAGES: Gayle Burtersett West Witton Sedbusk PROJECT PART-FINANCED Hardraw BY THE EUROPEAN UNION GLOSSARY Private Spaces Public Places Village Heritage Project

Architrave Mullioned window A characteristic moulded surround to a doorway A window divided into a series of lights by or window typical of the 18th century. vertical stone mullions.

Ashlar Outshut Good quality cut stone with a smoothly-tooled The rear part of a building, often an addition, surface. usually lower than the main body of the structure, where the roof slope is continued Cantilevered stack down to a lower level than at the front. A chimney stack that sits on top of a narrower gable end, its overhanging faces being Pent roof supported on pairs of corbels. Section of a building, perhaps an outshut, in which the roof is sloped up against a higher wall Impost behind. The block at the head of the jamb of an opening from which the head or arch springs. Quoin Large corner stone located at the right angle of Keystone two external walls, the finish of which may differ A keystone is the central stone of the head of from the main wall. an opening, usually but not always arched; it is sometimes emphasised by its face standing proud of the others, and usually of a wedge shape.