Low Hall
LOW HALL, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150568
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Low Hall
- Statutory Address:
- LOW HALL, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150568
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Low Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOW HALL, MAIN STREET
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:
- LOW HALL, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dacre
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 19891 61296
Details
DACRE MAIN STREET SE 16 SE (east side, off)
8/50 Low Hall 23.4.52 - II
House. Dated 1635. Probably for Matthew Wood. Smoothly dressed gritstone, graduated stone slate roof. 2 storeys with attic, 3 bays, with gables to main facade. Plinth, continuous dripmould to ground and first floors. Glazed double door between bays 2 and 3 in moulded chamfered surround with shallow 4-centred arch. Datestone over: panels with inscription '1635 MW' flanked by fan motif under roll moulding, the datestone flanked by labels carved with flower heads. Windows, ground floor: mullioned and transomed of 4, 7 and 6 lights; first floor: similar but shorter of 4, 6 and 5 lights with small light between bays 1 and 2 and a cross window between bays 2 and 3. Attic storey: paired round-headed lights under hoodmoulds. All windows are recessed-chamfered; dripmould breaks forward above windows, with stepped labels and labels embellished with leaf motif flanking entrance. Elaborate shaped kneelers and gable coping carrying finials at apex of gables and valleys between. Large stack in valley between bays 1 and 2; external stack right. Rear: board door to right, 4-light mullion and transom window to left of centre; mullion windows with hoodmoulds, some restored. Castellated rainwater heads at valleys. Left return: 4-light and single-light windows ground floor. 3-light and inserted single-light first-floor windows. Plinth obscured by C20 terrace. Ground-floor dripmould returned from front over single-light window. Right return: left: 2-light windows ground and first floor. External stack stepped in at first floor, the steps supporting stone gutters. Extensions built c1920 not of special interest. Interior: not inspected at resurvey. Extensive alterations were made to the plan in 1920 including removal of staircase, kitchen fireplace and chimney. Other fireplaces also moved, and C17 panelling imported. North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report Number 457 (1978).
Listing NGR: SE1989161296
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 331179
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report in North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report, Vol. 457, (1978)
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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