Baxters Fold

BAXTERS FOLD, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1132180
Date first listed:
23-Jun-1989
List Entry Name:
Baxters Fold
Statutory Address:
BAXTERS FOLD, MAIN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1132180
Date first listed:
23-Jun-1989
List Entry Name:
Baxters Fold
Statutory Address 1:
BAXTERS FOLD, 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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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:
BAXTERS FOLD, MAIN STREET

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Cracoe
National Park:
Yorkshire Dales
National Grid Reference:
SD 97745 60142

Details

CRACOE MAIN STREET SD 96 SE (north-west side) 4/4 Baxter's Fold GV II House and attached barn. Mid-late C17 with C18 alterations. Coursed squared gritstone rubble, graduated stone slate roof. 2-storey, 2-bay house, 3-bay barn to right. Quoins. House: C20 glazed doors to left and right, that to left in chamfered quoined surround with shallow triangular doorhead, that to right in projecting plain stone surround with pitched-stone triangular pediment. 2 paired 4-pane sash windows in plain surrounds to ground floor, smaller paired sashes to 2-light flat-faced mullion windows to first floor. End stacks. Barn: end byre doors in chamfered quoined surrounds, that to left with basket-arched doorhead, a shallow triangular doorhead to right. Board doors to cart entrance right of centre; quoined jambs, flat arch. 3 vents under eaves, the central vent having a round head. The house appears to have been divided into 2 cottages in the C18. Interior not seen at resurvey but reported to contain a C17 fireplace to left with keystone and flanking stones incised in imitation of joggled voussoirs; the ceiling beams have scarfed joints above this fireplace indicating an earlier timber firehood. Yorkshire Buildings Study Group, Report No. 671 (1980)

Listing NGR: SD9774560142

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
324758
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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