Hill Top Farmhouse and Cottage
HILL TOP FARMHOUSE AND COTTAGE, BACK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166442
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Hill Top Farmhouse and Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- HILL TOP FARMHOUSE AND COTTAGE, BACK LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166442
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Hill Top Farmhouse and Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- HILL TOP FARMHOUSE AND 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.
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:
- HILL TOP FARMHOUSE AND COTTAGE, BACK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Malham
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD8995563065
Details
SD 86 SE
6/13
20.2.58
MALHAM
BACK LANE
(east side)
Hill Top Farmhouse and Cottage
GV
II
Farmhouse dated 1617 with 2 bay C18 extension to left. Slobbered rubble, stone
dressings, stone slate roof; extension of dressed stone. 2 storeys, 6 bays.
Lobby-entrance through 2-storey projecting porch forming fourth bay of house.
Moulded surround to entrance with basket-arched head and moulded spandrels.
Datestone above with barely legible inscription apparently reading: William
Thomas
Preston 1617.
Dripstone over. Upper-floor 2-light double-chamfered window with square stool
and head to cavetto mullion; hoodmould over. Small opening in gable in centre
of pigeon loft containing a triangular arrangement of 22 holes. Pyramidal
finial to gable. Right-hand return of porch contains an upper floor window with
cavetto surround and 2 rows of pigeon holes above, lower row now blocked. No
openings in left-hand returned porch. To right of porch is ground floor double
chamfered window with cavetto mullion, formerly 4 lights but right 1 hand
mullion now cut out and door inserted in 2 right-hand lights. Two 3-light
double chamfered windows above with square stools and heads to cavetto mullions.
All windows have hoodmoulds. To left of porch is 4-light double-chamfered win-
dow with cavetto mullions to ground floor. Similar 3-light window above but
with square stools and heads; both windows have hoodmoulds. C18 extension is
2 storeys, double fronted. Central entrance with plain surround to upper half.
Windows are 2-light double-chamfered with flat-faced mullions. Pigeon loft
above. Gable-end ridge stacks, and ridge stack behind porch and at junction
with C18 extension. Rear of house includes projecting bay opposite porch.
Interior contains inglenook and separate bread oven with massive bressummer of
millstone grit.
Source: B Harrison & B Hotton, Vernacular Houses in North Yorkshire and
Cleveland (1984).
Listing NGR: SD8995563065
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 324255
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Harrison, B, Hutton, B, Vernacular Houses in North Yorkshire and Cleveland, (1984)
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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