Yarnbury Cottage
YARNBURY COTTAGE, OLD MOOR LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132149
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Yarnbury Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- YARNBURY COTTAGE, OLD MOOR LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132149
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Yarnbury Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- YARNBURY COTTAGE, OLD MOOR 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:
- YARNBURY COTTAGE, OLD MOOR LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Grassington
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SE0145565913
Details
SE 06 NW
2/26
23.3.82
GRASSINGTON
OLD MOOR LANE (west side)
Yarnbury
Yarnbury Cottage
II
GV
House. Possibly late C18 with early C19 conversion and C20 addition.
Coursed gritstone rubble, grey slate roof, 2 storeys, 2 bays. Quoins to
right. Central C20 single-storey porch with small-pane windows; flanking
and first-floor windows have slightly projecting plain stone surrounds and
C20 small-pane frames. Stone gutter brackets; kneeler and gable coping to
right; end stacks. Interior not inspected at resurvey. Included for group
value. The house may have been a farmhouse originally, becoming an agents
house c1818 when the Duke of Devonshire appointed John Taylor as chief
agent and Captain Barratt as local agent for the lead mines. It is a
period of alterations at Yarnbury House (q.v.) and may have been the time
when the agent stopped living on the premises. A. Raistrick, Lead Mining
in the Mid Pennines, 1973, pl10.
Listing NGR: SE 01455 65913
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 324779
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Raistrick, A, Lead Mining in the Mid Pennines, (1973), 110
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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