Cote Syke Farmhouse

COTE SYKE FARMHOUSE, GREYSTON PLAIN LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1150447
Date first listed:
18-May-1987
List Entry Name:
Cote Syke Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
COTE SYKE FARMHOUSE, GREYSTON PLAIN LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1150447
Date first listed:
18-May-1987
List Entry Name:
Cote Syke Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
COTE SYKE FARMHOUSE, GREYSTON PLAIN 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:
COTE SYKE FARMHOUSE, GREYSTON PLAIN LANE

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Felliscliffe
National Grid Reference:
SE 24944 57852

Details

FELLISCLIFFE GREYSTON PLAIN LANE SE 25 NW (west side, off)

3/7 Cote Syke Farmhouse

- II

House. Dated 1702 and 1735 with mid C20 restoration. Coursed squared gritstone, purple slate roof to main range, graduated stone slates to bay on right. 2-storey, 3-bay main range, single-storey bay to right. Quoins. Main range: C20 board door right in moulded quoined surround with stepped moulding to lintel and inscription "E R I 1702", cornice over. Recessed chamfered mullion windows throughout, of 4 and 6 lights with hoodmoulds to ground floor; of 4, 3 and 3 lights to first floor with an additional single- light window first floor over door in a stone architrave. Below this window a stone plaque with the inscription:

"17 S 35" (William and Susannah Simpson), W S "Omniam credem diem / tibi Diluxisse Supre - / mum. Grata Superv - / enient quae non ope - / rabitir hora". Bulbous kneeler and gable coping to right, raised verge with bulbous kneeler and coping to left; large corniced projecting stack left, banded stack right. Single-storey bay: board door with chamfered quoins to right jamb, the chamfer continued across the lintel as an ogee curve, the left jamb probably cut back. 2-light recessed chamfered mullion window to right; inserted 3-light window in right return. Interior: main range: the main living room ground floor right has cyma- moulded chamfer stops to beams and former inglenook fireplace to right; former parlour left - a fine bolection-moulded fireplace and a similar fine surround in the room above. The 1735 date probably relates to the insertion of the fireplaces in the left gable, alterations to the main fireplace against the right gable and the insertion of the window with architrave.

Listing NGR: SE2494457852

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
331510
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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