Handale Abbey Cottages
HANDALE ABBEY COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, SOUTH TOWN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1136782
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Handale Abbey Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- HANDALE ABBEY COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, SOUTH TOWN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1136782
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Handale Abbey Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- HANDALE ABBEY COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, SOUTH TOWN 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:
- HANDALE ABBEY COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, SOUTH TOWN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Redcar and Cleveland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Loftus
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 72699 15704
Details
LOFTUS SOUTH TOWN LANE NZ 71 NW (off west side), Loftus. 1/69 Nos. 1 and 2 Handale Abbey Cottages. (Formerly listed as Handale 20.1.67 Farmhouse). - II Farmhouse and farm cottage adjoining left, early/mid C18, with outhouses adjoining left and right ends c.1800. Now 2 cottages; dressed sandstone, coursed rubble with quoins to outhouse at left; brick outhouse at right. Clay pantile roofs with stone ridge and gable copings and block kneelers. Stacks rebuilt in brick with stone caps. 2 storeys, 2 plus 2 windows. Original doorway, between farmhouse and cottage, now holds late C20 door. Mid/late C19 doorway with late C20 door between bays in farmhouse. Late C20 casements in original openings. Late C19 opening with sash inserted above original doorway. Stone sills, keyed lintels on first floor of farmhouse. Steeply-pitched roof, sprocketed at eaves. Ridge and end stacks. Single-storey outhouses. Garret lights in returns of farmhouse and cottage. Mid C20 lean-to rear wing and c.1900 brick outbuilding adjoining right-hand outhouse are not of special interest. Farm outbuildings to south are too much altered to be of special interest.
Listing NGR: NZ7269915704
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 60229
- 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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