West Bank Farm
WEST BANK FARM, COW CLOSE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132390
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- West Bank Farm
- Statutory Address:
- WEST BANK FARM, COW CLOSE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132390
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- West Bank Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST BANK FARM, COW CLOSE 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:
- WEST BANK FARM, COW CLOSE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kirkby Malham
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 89450 61157
Details
KIRKBY MALHAM COW CLOSE LANE SD 86 SE (North Side) 6/6 West Bank Farm II House. Mid C18, extended in C19 and C20. Slobbered rubble, stone dressings, stone slate roof. Two storeys, 4 bays. Entrance between two right-hand bays has a moulded surround, with a beaded frieze and cyma-recta cornice. C20 door. The right-hand bay has a C19 window with a plain surround of milled stone to each storey. The left-hand bay has a C20 2-light transomed and mullioned window in each storey. The central 2 bays have mid C18 3-light windows with cavetto mouldings and recessed flat-faced transomed and mullioned windows in each storey. Stone ridge stack at either end of second bay. The left-hand gable has an early C20 porch surrounding a gable end entrance which has a chamfered surround and basket-arched lintel carved with the initials R W and date. At the rear the staircase window rises the full 2 storeys and is constructed from parts of C17 and C18 windows with chamfered and plain surrounds. The interior contains an inglenook fireplace with massive voussoirs.
Listing NGR: SD8945061157
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 324231
- 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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