Quaker Cottage

QUAKER COTTAGE, BACK LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1150487
Date first listed:
14-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:
Quaker Cottage
Statutory Address:
QUAKER COTTAGE, BACK LANE

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1150487
Date first listed:
14-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:
Quaker Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
QUAKER COTTAGE, BACK 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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
QUAKER COTTAGE, BACK LANE

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Askwith
National Grid Reference:
SE 17032 47929

Details

ASKWITH BACK LANE SE 14 NE (west side) 10/3 Quaker Cottage - II

Friends' Meeting House, now private house. 1704, restored and extended c1980. Coursed squared gritstone, graduated grey slate roof. Single storey with attics, 3 bays. Quoins. Central C20 glazed door with chamfered quoined jambs and lintel with C20 inscription: "1704 AD". Recessed chamfered mullion windows, to left of 3 lights, to right of 4 lights. Right return: 3-light mullion window lights attic. Bulbous kneelers, copings missing. C20 alterations include a large window in the left return and single-storey rear extension. A C19 photograph in the possession of the occupier shows the house with a thatched roof. The meeting house was taken over by Primitive Methodists who abandoned it c1880. In 1900 the house was described as 'now in ruins' and the grave mounds had sunk. (Speight p 170) H Speight, Upper Wharfedale, 1900.

Listing NGR: SE1703247929

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Legacy System number:
331395
Legacy System:
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Speight, H, Upper Wharfedale, (1900), 170

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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