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Plan of a Lead Miner's Cottage

Black and white hand drawn plan of a miner's thatched cottage with vertical plan view and floor plan. The Last Thatched Lead Miner´s cottage (approximate date 1650) at Hurst near Reeth, Swaledale. Demolishe 1948. Measured in August 1948 by R.T. Clough A.R.I.B.A. From 'The Lead Smelting Mills of the Yorkshire Dales'

 

Image: © 1962 R.T. Clough