Sawyers Garth
SAWYERS GARTH, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132162
- Date first listed:
- 04-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Sawyers Garth
- Statutory Address:
- SAWYERS GARTH, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132162
- Date first listed:
- 04-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Sawyers Garth
- Statutory Address 1:
- SAWYERS GARTH, 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.
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:
- SAWYERS GARTH, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Litton
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 91067 74056
Details
SD 97 SW LITTON MAIN STREET (north side, off)
10/127 Sawyers Garth
- II
House. Mid-late C17, additions dated 1709 and 1714, alterations in mid C19 and C20. Limestone rubble, graduated stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays to left of added 2-storey gabled porch, and 2 bays to right. Quoins. Porch: 4-panel door with chamfered quoined jambs, the lintel having a recessed panel with scalloped border and relief lettering " T I T" ; a 4-light flat- 1714 faced mullion window to first floor, the mullions slightly recessed. 3-bay range to left of porch: central half-glazed door flanked by sash windows to ground and first floor; plain surrounds to all openings. Gutter brackets, moulded kneeler and gable coping to left. 2-bay range to right of porch: C20 glazed door and window to left, 4-pane sash in recessed chamfered surround above. Blocked doorway with C20 window to right, having chamfered quoined jambs and triangular recess to lintel with the letters " I " ; T T 1714 in relief. There is a segmental-arched chamfered window to left of this doorway, and a C20 2-light window above. The eaves line is lower to the right-hand bay. C19 cart doors with wooden lintel to far right. External stack at left end and a large ridge stack above the porch entrance, both banded. Left return: large external stack, small chamfered window to first floor, right, inserted window to ground floor. Interior: fine stone staircase with bulbous knopped oak balusters inside the porch on left of the entrance passage. The central fireplace has a bressumer beam carried by the vertical heckpost beside which a board door gives access to porch and staircase. An important vernacular house which retains an early fireplace (now underbuilt) and an early staircase; the porch with stair is typical of the late C17-early C18 in this area (cf, Manor House, Halton Gill q.v.), the porch often added to an earlier house.
Listing NGR: SD9106774056
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 324714
- 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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