Jean Howard, 18 March 2022

This plan of Teapot Hall gives details of its structure and dimensions.

The main timbers do not have the appearance of traditional crucks.

The ground floor was about 19 feet square; the single first-floor bedroom about 19 x 9ft.

Survey drawing, twentieth century

Teapot Hall, Dalderby (TF 252 665) is a much-quoted example of a very simple cruck-framed cottage structure.

However, as M W Barley points out, its sloping walls would have denied headroom and are uncharacteristic of a cruck-framed cottage.

He concludes that it was not a genuine survival of a primitive tradition but was most likely built in the nineteenth century.

Unfortunately it was burned down in 1945 to celebrate VJ Day!

J D Wheeldon

A pre-war photograph of this unique building.

Tiles cover the sloping side walls below the low thatched roof.

The front wall appears to be constructed in traditional mud and stud.

View from the south-east of this well known Lincolnshire curiosity.

Pre-World War newspaper photograph

The war memorial at Dalderby was designed and sculpted by Tuttell & Son of Lincoln in honour of the men of the hamlet who joined the army in 1914.

It was unveiled by General Sir William Robertson on 4 October 1916.

Dalderby had a population of only 42 and of the 13 eligible men 11 joined the army.

Advertising card, printed by Ruddocks of Lincoln, c.1920