Ghyll Cottage

GHYLL COTTAGE, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1135653
Date first listed:
22-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:
Ghyll Cottage
Statutory Address:
GHYLL COTTAGE, CHURCH LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1135653
Date first listed:
22-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:
Ghyll Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
GHYLL COTTAGE, CHURCH 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
GHYLL COTTAGE, CHURCH LANE

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

District:
Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Bardsey cum Rigton
National Grid Reference:
SE 36486 43106

Details

BARDSEY-CUM-RIGTON CHURCH LANE SE34SE LS17 (east side)

Ghyll Cottage 7/3 II

House. Mid-late C17 with scant internal remains of earlier timber-framed house, rear altered mid C18, mid C20 alteration and extension. Coursed rubble, stone slate roof. 2-cell, through-passage plan. 2 storeys. Three 1st-floor windows. Central doorway has open wooden latticed porch with 2-light window above. All are double-chamfered mullioned windows with almost square reveals. Outer bays have 4-light windows to each floor, those to ground floor with lowered sills and renewed central mullioned windows with almost square reveals. Outer bays have 4-light windows to each floor, those to ground floor with lowered sills and renewed central mullions forming 2 tall lights. Ashlar stack to left gable; external stack to right gable has offsets and ashlar top with moulded cornice. Attached to left corner C20 single-storey extension in keeping breaks forward. Rear (fronting street): central doorway altered to window. Other bays have windows with lintels, projecting sills and small-pane Yorkshire sashes.

Interior: housebody (on left) has large fireplace with Tudor-arched lintel and stop-chamfered spine beams: Evidence on 1st floor of earlier timber-framed house: tie beam supported on post with mortices for brace. Truss has single angle struts clasping purlins and collar rafter roof (collars gone) of similar character to Oak Tree Cottage (q.v.) nearby.

Listing NGR: SE3648643106

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
342129
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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