LOWER SUMMER HOUSE

LOWER SUMMER HOUSE, GREEN HILL LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1316990
Date first listed:: 23-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:: LOWER SUMMER HOUSE
Statutory Address:: LOWER SUMMER HOUSE, GREEN HILL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1316990
Date first listed:: 23-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:: LOWER SUMMER HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: LOWER SUMMER HOUSE, GREEN HILL LANE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: LOWER SUMMER HOUSE, GREEN HILL LANE

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Cowling
National Grid Reference:: SD9660442518

Details

SD 94 SE 5/57

COWLING GREEN HILL LANE Lower Summer House

GV II

House, probably mid C17. Large dressed stone with stone slate roof. Two storeys. The plan appears to have consisted of one large room, at the east end, and 2 next to it. The south front has a string which forms a hoodmould over the 3 ground floor windows, which are double chamfered and all formerly had transoms; now of 2, 3 and 1 light they were originally of 8, 12 and 4 lights. The first floor windows are of 3 and 4-lights and are also double chamfered. At the rear there are similar windows of 3, 2 and 3 lights to the ground floor and 2 of 3-lights above. In the east gable there is a blocked chamfered doorway with Tudor head; in the west gable are 2 large chimneybreasts which merge at the ridge into a single stack. One of these is now largely concealed by an extension which buts into one of the rear windows, but has a 3-light chamfered stone mullion at the first floor. Inside the larger room has been partitioned. It now hs a square stone fireplace but the beams above it are pieced, suggesting a larger predecessor. The smaller rooms have Tudor arched doorways from the main room. The northern room has a small fireplace of the same shape, and another is to be found in the southern room on the first floor.

Listing NGR: SD9660442518

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 323575
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

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