Spen House (Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings)
SPEN HOUSE (FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS), SKELLGILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1131977
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Spen House (Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings)
- Statutory Address:
- SPEN HOUSE (FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS), SKELLGILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1131977
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Spen House (Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings)
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPEN HOUSE (FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS), SKELLGILL LANE
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:
- SPEN HOUSE (FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS), SKELLGILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Low Abbotside
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 92981 91536
Details
LOW ABBOTSIDE SKELLGILL LANE SD 99 SW (north side) 8/165 Spen House (farmhouse and attached outbuildings) - II Farmhouse and outbuildings under 1 roof. Early - mid C19. Coursed watershot rubble, stone slate roof. 2 storeys; 3-bay house, 5-bay outbuilding. House: central 4-panel door in ashlar surround with moulded imposts and pediment. 16-pane sash windows with slab sills and sill-like lintels. End stacks. Outbuilding, ground floor: part-shuttered window; board stable door; board door; shuttered opening; board coach-house doors below 4-centred arch of rubble voussoirs with hood-mould. First floor: 16- pane sash windows. Slab gutter brackets. Stack at right end. North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report No 919.
Listing NGR: SD9298191536
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 323193
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report in Report Number 919, ()
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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