Western Farmhouse at High Cayton

WESTERN FARMHOUSE AT HIGH CAYTON, WATER LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1150377
Date first listed:
15-Mar-1966
List Entry Name:
Western Farmhouse at High Cayton
Statutory Address:
WESTERN FARMHOUSE AT HIGH CAYTON, WATER LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1150377
Date first listed:
15-Mar-1966
Date of most recent amendment:
18-May-1987
List Entry Name:
Western Farmhouse at High Cayton
Statutory Address 1:
WESTERN FARMHOUSE AT HIGH CAYTON, WATER 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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WESTERN FARMHOUSE AT HIGH CAYTON, WATER LANE

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
South Stainley with Cayton
National Grid Reference:
SE 28592 63223

Details

SOUTH STAINLEY WITH CAYTON WATER LANE SE 26 SE (west side) 1/131 High Cayton

15.3.66 Western Farmhouse at High Cayton (formerly listed with Cayton Hall)

GV II

House. Mid C19. Coursed squared gritstone, purple slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays with narrower recessed bay to left. Central 6-panel door with 4-pane over- light; 16-pane sashes to ground and first floors; all openings have solid stone lintels and projecting sills. Gable copings, banded multi-flue end stacks. Hipped roof to recessed bay. Rear: C20 porch to left of centre; tall round- headed stair sash window of 4 x 7 panes with interlaced glazing bars to head. Flanking 16-pane sashes in flush wood frames. The house stands on part of the site of the deserted village of High Cayton. N A Hudleston, personal communication. N A Hudleston, Stainley and Cayton, 1956.

Listing NGR: SE2859263223

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Legacy System number:
331638
Legacy System:
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Sources

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Hudleston, N A, Stainley and Cayton, (1956)

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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.

Ordnance survey map of Western Farmhouse at High Cayton

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