64 LITTLE HUCKLOW : ITS CUSTOMS AND OLD HOLTSES. 



stone quoins, and the stonework of the windows is plain and 

 unmoulded. Moreover, the doorway between the hall and 

 weaving-room is only 2 ft. wide ; an original doorway would 

 probably have been made wider by setting the fireplace more 

 to the east. There is no doubt that these two apartments on 

 the north side are comparatively modern additions. This is 

 proved not only by the style of building, but by the fact that 

 Adam Poynton only paid tax on two hearths. 



The small building at the south-east corner of the house, 

 now used as a coal-place, is a later addition, and was intended 

 for what is here called a pig-spot. It is only shown in the photo- 

 graph. The word " spot " is used in this neighbourhood as 

 the name of anv small outbuilding — e.g., a calf-spot, a hen-spot. 

 At the bottom of the two little crofts on the south side of the 

 house is an old barn which formerly had other buildings on 

 either si(ie of it. Over the south door of the barn is an arched 

 lintel, and on it the figures 1619 are cut. This stone has 

 been removed from some other building, now destroyed. 



It does not seem to have occurred to the builder of this house 

 that a fireplace in an upper room could have been erected 

 most conveniently over the fireplace in the room below, so 

 that one chimney-stack would suffice for both. The fireplace 

 in the chamber over the hall is formed in the wall, 2 ft. 8 in. 

 thick, which divides the building into two unequal parts, and 

 extends from the floor of the cellar to the ridge-piece. This 

 is the thickest wall in the house. Such an arrangement 

 involved an unnecessary loss of space as well as expenditure 

 of money ; to find room for a chimney the partition wall was 

 made six inches thicker than the outer walls. Originally both 

 the fireplaces were open — that is to say, a fire of wood or 

 ])it-coal burnt on the hearth-stones. 



There are eight holes in the walls, which were formerly userl 

 as repositories for keeping things.* Three of these holes are 

 in the room over the hall — one at the head of the winding 



* In Percivall's Spanish Diclionarie, ijqi, we h:ive : " Alhiiztna, a 

 hole in a wal to set things in, an Anibrie." 



