Cowl House and Outbuildings
COWL HOUSE AND OUTBUILDINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1149071
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Cowl House and Outbuildings
- Statutory Address:
- COWL HOUSE AND OUTBUILDINGS
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- Date:
- 2002-06-27
- Reference:
- IOE01/07647/14
- Rights:
- © Mr Les Waby. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1149071
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Cowl House and Outbuildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- COWL HOUSE AND OUTBUILDINGS
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:
- COWL HOUSE AND OUTBUILDINGS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bransdale
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- SE6159896725
Details
SE 69 NW
3/5
BRANSDALE
BRANSDALE
(west side)
Cowl House and attached outbuildings
GV
II
House and attached barn, loose boxes and stables. 1745 on datestone, with
early C19 extensions; house raised and remodelled c1830. For William
Garbutt. House of hammer-dressed sandstone, partly on rubble footings,
extension of herringbone-tooled sandstone; outbuildings of tooled and
squared sandstone. Pantile roofs. House originally central-entry plan,
later extended to left to link with detached barn; range of loose boxes and
stables added to right. 2-storey, 3-window house front, with 2-storey,
single-window extension to left; 1½ storey barn further to left, on rising
ground; l½-storey range to right. Renewed 4-panel door beneath divided
overlight to house, in chamfered openings with flush quoins; chamfered
lintel inscribed "WG:1745" above. Windows are large pane horizontal sliding
sashes with stone sills, 3-light to ground floor and 2-light to first floor.
Blocked fire window to end left. Jambs of ground-floor openings exhibit
traces of chevron tooling; window lintels are vertically-tooled
replacements. Extension has 2 board doors with 2-light, large-pane
horizontal sliding sash to centre and similar window above, both with stone
sills. Tooled wedge lintels to ground-floor openings. Portions of earlier
diagonally-tooled lintels reused in masonry to left. Coped gable and shaped
kneeler to right. End stacks to house and centre stack to extension, all
with coved caps. Barn: board door with roughly tooled lintel, flanked by
ventilation slits; pitching hole to first floor right. Coped gable and
kneeler to left. Range to right: 3 doorways, one now blocked by 6-pane
pivoting window, one with replacement stable door, all with roughly-tooled
lintels. Square pitching hole with shutter to right. Interior of house.
Ground floor, room to left: chamfered beam and joists, the beam with run-out
stops. Stone chimney-piece with plain jambs, coved imposts, flat lintel and
fine moulded dentilled timber shelf. Extension: first-floor room has
fireplaces with plain stone surround and shelf, with round-arch basket
grate. Interior of barn: one upper cruck truss with crossed apex survives
to left of door.
Listing NGR: SE6159896725
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 328842
- 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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