Tofta House
TOFTA HOUSE, WHASHTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1131269
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Tofta House
- Statutory Address:
- TOFTA HOUSE, WHASHTON ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1131269
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Tofta House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOFTA HOUSE, WHASHTON ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- TOFTA HOUSE, WHASHTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ravensworth
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 14293 07832
Details
NZ 1407-1507 RAVENSWORTH WHASHTON ROAD (north side)
16/134 Tofta House
4.2.69
GV II
Farmhouse. Late C16 - early C17 with later alterations. Rubble, Welsh slate roofs. T-shaped plan with central rear range; 3 storeys now 2; 4 bays to front elevation. Coursed rubble, much of first 2 bays constructed of ashlar stones robbed from Ravensworth Castle (qv). Quoins. In second bay, C20 part-glazed 6-panel door in ashlar surround. Sash windows with glazing bars with projecting sills and deep stone lintels: to left and right of ground-floor window in first bay, part-surrounds of mullion windows. Shaped kneelers, moulded ashlar coping. Stacks at ends and between second and third bays, that to left end corniced, the other 2 with brickwork at top, that to right end partly external. Rear of rear wing: quoins, shaped kneelers, moulded coping, gable stack; left return of rear wing has blocked second-floor 2-light chamfered mullion window. Left return: mainly of reused medieval ashlar; ground- and first-floor fire windows, with blocked ashlar surrounds. Right return: blocked chamfered first-floor window to right of stack; shuttered loft opening to left of stack. North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report No 629.
Listing NGR: NZ1429307832
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 322835
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report in North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report, Vol. 629, ()
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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