Top Building
TOP BUILDING
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1131400
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Top Building
- Statutory Address:
- TOP BUILDING
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1131400
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Top Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOP BUILDING
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:
- TOP BUILDING
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Carlton Highdale
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 05505 82987
Details
CARLTON HIGHDALE GAMMERSGILL SE 08 SE 7/58 Top Building 26.3.87 GV II
House, now calf-house and hay-mow. Late C17. Rubble, stone slate roof. 3 storeys, 3 first-floor openings. Quoins. Ground floor, from left: board door in quoined surround; blocked 4-light double-chamfered mullion window; board door in ashlar surround with bases, impost blocks and rounded inner corners to lintel, and above it a recess, perhaps formerly for inscribed plaque; surround of 3-light double-chamfered mullion window. First floor, from left: chamfered fire window; two 3-light double-chamfered mullion windows, each with a mullion missing. Second floor: 2 blocked 3-light double-chamfered mullion windows. Shaped kneelers, moulded ashlar coping.
Listing NGR: SE0550582987
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 322540
- 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.
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