Hall Croft, Hawksworth, West Yorkshire. Historic Building Recording (OASIS ID: archerit1-358313)

This report presents the results of a historic building recording of Hall Croft, Hawksworth, West Yorkshire. The survey was carried out in order to record the historical features of the building prior to its redevelopment. Hall Croft consists of an L-shaped house situated in the village of Hawksworth. The oldest part of the building is the west range, which was first built as a three-bay timber-framed building, either as a barn, a house, or as a cross-wing to a larger house. The original phase of construction cannot be dated precisely, but it is likely to date to the 16th century or earlier. The house was later incrementally encased in stone, probably in the 16th or early 17th century. The northern part of the east wall was only later rebuilt in stone, on a different plane to the south bay, suggesting that this had previously been the site of a lost perpendicular range. This part of the wall was rebuilt at the same time as the building was heightened, extended northwards and given a new king-post roof, probably in the late 17th or early 18th century, resulting in a three-cell house with a central floored housebody. The north range has few surviving features and has no historic fabric above ground floor level. The range was built before the 1848 tithe map was published but was not yet connected to the west range at that date. Cartographic evidence suggests the north range was extended with a cellar in the second half of the 19th century and that the two ranges were joined, although there is no evidence in the building's fabric that the ranges were joined before the late 20th century. Other changes include the almost wholesale replacement of the windows in the early 20th century and the more recent upward extension of the north range.