Town Head Farmhouse
TOWN HEAD FARMHOUSE, TOWN HEAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166994
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Town Head Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HEAD FARMHOUSE, TOWN HEAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166994
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Town Head Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN HEAD FARMHOUSE, TOWN HEAD
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:
- TOWN HEAD FARMHOUSE, TOWN HEAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Grassington
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 00147 64496
Details
GRASSINGTON TOWN HEAD SE 0064-0164 (east side) 8/14 Town Head Farmhouse (formerly listed as Town Head Farm) 6.10.69 II Farmhouse. Mid C17, reroofed mid-late C19. Coursed gritstone, grey slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays with 2-storey porch between bays 1 and 2 and an added bay to left. Quoins. Porch: board door in chamfered quoined surround, the lintel arch possibly recut. Recessed chamfered mullion windows throughout of 3 (mullions repositioned), 5 and 5 lights to ground floor under a continuous dripmould; and of 4, 3 with hoodmould (to porch), 4 and 4 lights to first floor. Gable coping right; ridge stack above porch and to each end. Eaves decorated with plaster and pebbles. Added bay to left: C20 double doors, square loading door above gable coping left. Left return: blocked small chamfered opening to ground floor, blocked arch to gable. Interior of house not inspected at resurvey but reported to contain an arched fireplace. The house is one of those built within 2 generations of the sale of freeholds in the village by the Earl of Cumberland, George Clifford in 1604. The left bay may be a contemporary farm building but quoins define the original house. The decorated band below the eaves, with chevron and semicircle motifs, is an unusual feature and probably dates from the reroofing. Formerly known as Rathmell's farm, it belongs to the Trustees of the Fountaine Hospital in Linton. I. Goldthorpe, One Hundred Things to see on a walk through Grassington, 1988, (booklet).
Listing NGR: SE0014764496
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 324788
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Goldthorpe, I, One Hundred Things to See on a Walk Through Grassington, (1988)
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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