DURING October, 1959, I was privileged to examine a number of cruck-framed long-houses in 'Cleveland, under the guidance of Mary Nattrass, who has recorded a great deal of material on the vernacular architecture of this part of North Yorkshire. In the course of this survey we visited several dwellings which still retain the built-in beds that were formerly in general use in that area. The most interesting is that in one of the ruined cottages at Cote Hill, towards the head of Farndale. This cottage consisted Inainly of a large kitchen-living room entered through a small entrance lobby. At the end opposite the hearth was a tiny parlour, which served also as a bedroom for the occupier of the house and his wife, and this was covered with a loft. At one side of the kitchen were two small recesses, the one nearer the hearth serving as a dairy whilst the other housed a built-in bed, measuring 7ft. 6in. by 5ft. 6in. (Fig. 1). Only the bed recess now remains but Mrs. Mary Wilson, who occupies the neighbouring Oak Crag, slept in the bed when a child. The bed itself was of the same type as those found elsewhere in the North Yorkshire Moors, consisting of four corner posts joined together by boards, from which ropes or thongs stretched lengthwise and across the frame at intervals of about four inches. The front of the bed was covered in with a deep board which projected several inches above the thonging and so retained the deep feather mattress. The whole was enclosed by two massive wooden doors and covered on the top with boards (Fig. 2). This bed is much larger than the normal and Mrs. Wilson informed me that it accommodated the four children when they were young, whilst their parents slept in the parlour. The arrangement of the dairy and bed recess at Cote Hill is very similar to that described by McCourt from Lisnarmuck, near Tobermore, Co. Londonderry, although in the latter the cuilteach and pantry project partly as an outshot. The farmhouse of Oak Crag, which adjoins Cote fIill, is also a cruckframed building with many interesting features. One room at the end has