COWL HOUSE AND OUTBUILDINGS

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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:: COWL HOUSE AND OUTBUILDINGS

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Date:: 2002-06-27
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Official list entry

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

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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

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Legacy System number:: 328842
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.