Visitors to Ryedale Folk Museum are guaranteed to find something extraordinary, especially when entering any of the cruck-framed buildings. For me, Stang End Farmhouse is special, because it was a real farm building, carefully taken apart and then transported to Hutton-le-Hole, lock, stock, and barrel, then rebuilt.
This dwelling has walls built of stone, with cruck frames and a thatched roof. It came from Danby Dale, one of the larger dales within the National Park, about 12 miles from Whitby. It stood for nearly 500 years before it was moved to the museum in 1967/68 and is a superb example of one of the earliest farmhouses to have survived in this area. Parts of Stang End are thought to have been built as early as the 14th century.
This development is known to have started by the Huntley family, who moved into the Stang End farm in the early 1700s. Prior to 1704, this dwelling would have been nothing more than a single-floor room, similar
