TOWN HEAD COTTAGE, FORMER DAME SCHOOL ADJOINING AND AREA WALL

TOWN HEAD COTTAGE, FORMER DAME SCHOOL ADJOINING AND AREA WALL, TOWN HEAD, CA17 4NQ

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1145375
Date first listed:: 23-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: TOWN HEAD COTTAGE, FORMER DAME SCHOOL ADJOINING AND AREA WALL
Statutory Address:: TOWN HEAD COTTAGE, FORMER DAME SCHOOL ADJOINING AND AREA WALL, TOWN HEAD, CA17 4NQ

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1145375
Date first listed:: 23-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: TOWN HEAD COTTAGE, FORMER DAME SCHOOL ADJOINING AND AREA WALL
Statutory Address 1:: TOWN HEAD COTTAGE, FORMER DAME SCHOOL ADJOINING AND AREA WALL, TOWN HEAD, CA17 4NQ

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: TOWN HEAD COTTAGE, FORMER DAME SCHOOL ADJOINING AND AREA WALL, TOWN HEAD, CA17 4NQ

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ravenstonedale
National Park:: YORKSHIRE DALES
National Grid Reference:: NY 72172 03662

Details

NY 7203, 26/136

RAVENSTONEDALE, TOWN HEAD, Ravenstonedale (west side), Town Head Cottage, former Dame School adjoining, & area wall

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II Cottage; probably C16 with later alterations. Former Dame School adjoining north end was possibly 1859 conversion of earlier outbuildings (date, with initials S.W. on panel). Slobbered rubble with quoins to school. Graduated stone flag roof to cottage, graduated slate roof to school. 2 storeys. Cottage 4 bays: low plank door with 2 casements to left, and one to right on each floor. School 2 bays, set slightly forward of cottage; Plank door to each floor on right with stone steps up to 1st floor door; 1st-floor casement with dated panel to left. Glazing bars to all windows. Large corbelled stone chimney to south end of cottage, rendered chimney to south end of school. Coursed, squared rubble area wall c.3 ft high to front of cottage.

Listing NGR: NY7217203662

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Legacy System number:: 74153
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.