Now the people of Wirksworth are quite proud of their cruck building, and I wish I had taken more notice of the plaque which described its history.
But I didn’t reasoning that there would be something on the internet offering up chapter and verse, but there isn’t … least ways not that I have found.
"A cruck or crook frame is a curved timber, one of a pair, which supports the roof of a building, used particularly in England. This type of timber framing consists of long, generally naturally curved, timber members that lean inwards and form the ridge of the roof.
These posts are then generally secured by a horizontal beam which then forms an "A" shape.
Several of these "crooks" are constructed on the ground and then lifted into position.
They are then joined together by either solid walls or cross beams which aid in preventing racking which is the action of each individual frame going out of square with the rest of the frame, and thus risking collapse."*
In the case of the Wirksworth cruck I vaguely remember that it was believed to be medieval, and was later incorporated into a brick structure.
But again I didn’t clock just when that happened or what that successor building had been.
On the 1900 OS map it shows up as an individual building on St Mary’s Gate and is at present an Italian restaurant.
Location; Wirksworth
Picture; the Wirksworth cruck, 2019, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
*Cruck, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruck
But I didn’t reasoning that there would be something on the internet offering up chapter and verse, but there isn’t … least ways not that I have found.
"A cruck or crook frame is a curved timber, one of a pair, which supports the roof of a building, used particularly in England. This type of timber framing consists of long, generally naturally curved, timber members that lean inwards and form the ridge of the roof.
Several of these "crooks" are constructed on the ground and then lifted into position.
They are then joined together by either solid walls or cross beams which aid in preventing racking which is the action of each individual frame going out of square with the rest of the frame, and thus risking collapse."*
In the case of the Wirksworth cruck I vaguely remember that it was believed to be medieval, and was later incorporated into a brick structure.
But again I didn’t clock just when that happened or what that successor building had been.
On the 1900 OS map it shows up as an individual building on St Mary’s Gate and is at present an Italian restaurant.
Location; Wirksworth
Picture; the Wirksworth cruck, 2019, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
*Cruck, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruck
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