FORCE HEAD FARMHOUSE AND RAILINGS

FORCE HEAD FARMHOUSE AND RAILINGS, EAST END

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1166663
Date first listed:: 16-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: FORCE HEAD FARMHOUSE AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: FORCE HEAD FARMHOUSE AND RAILINGS, EAST END

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1166663
Date first listed:: 16-Jan-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: FORCE HEAD FARMHOUSE AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: FORCE HEAD FARMHOUSE AND RAILINGS, EAST END

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: FORCE HEAD FARMHOUSE AND RAILINGS, EAST END

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Hawes
National Park:: YORKSHIRE DALES
National Grid Reference:: SD 87170 89302

Details

HAWES EAST END, Gayle SD 88 NE 20/118 Force Head, Farmhouse and railings (formerly listed as 16.1.52 'Foss' Head Farmhouse)

GV II House and railings. House dated 1711, early C19 railings. Coursed rubble, stone slate roof, wrought-iron railings. House: 2 storeys, 2 bays. Central 4-panel door below overlight in architrave with capitals and keystone dated 1711 (the date having been carved recently after its discovery on a roof timber), cornice and detached pediment. Paired 16-pane sash windows in architraves with flat-faced mullions. Drip-mould over ground floor except where broken by doorway. End stacks. In front of house, low rubble retaining wall, with simple railings and central gate with cast-iron urn finials to standards.

Listing NGR: SD8717089302

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Legacy System number:: 323141
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.