Ashfield Cottages

Ashfield Cottages, 4 and 5, Main Street

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1131623
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:
Ashfield Cottages
Statutory Address:
Ashfield Cottages, 4 and 5, Main Street

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1131623
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:
Ashfield Cottages
Statutory Address 1:
Ashfield Cottages, 4 and 5, Main Street

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Ashfield Cottages, 4 and 5, Main Street

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Bentham
National Grid Reference:
SD 66498 69300

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28 May 2024 to correct a typo in the name, address and description and to reformat the text to current standards

SD 66 NE
6/16

BENTHAM
High Bentham
MAIN STREET (north side)
Nos 4 & 5 Ashfield Cottages

(formerly listed as part of row of Ashfield House and Nos 1-4 and adjoining Cottages)

GV
II

Formerly barn to right of No 6 (qv), now pair of cottages. C17 with C19 alterations. Slobbered rubble part rendered. Stone dressings, tile roof, two brick ridge stacks. Two storeys two bays. Left-hand entrance has chamfered surround and massive lintel; right-hand entrance has moulded surround and decorated lintel; C20 glazed doors. Two windows on each floor, each with plain surround and sashes. No 5 has C19 rendering removed and left-hand part of blocked central waggon entrance is exposed.

Listing NGR: SD6649869300

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
324077
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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