Ankness Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings

ANKNESS FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, BRANSDALE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1172744
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
Ankness Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings
Statutory Address:
ANKNESS FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, BRANSDALE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1172744
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
Ankness Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings
Statutory Address 1:
ANKNESS FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, BRANSDALE ROAD

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ANKNESS FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, BRANSDALE ROAD

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Bransdale
National Park:
North York Moors
National Grid Reference:
SE 63890 93515

Details

BRANSDALE BRANSDALE ROAD SE 69 SW (south-west side, off) 5/11 Ankness Farmhouse and attached outbuildings - II

Farmhouse and attached outbuildings. Mid C18; extended in 1789 (on lintel), and in C19. Built for George Sigsworth and extended by Isaac Waind. House of herringbone-tooled sandstone; outbuildings of tooled sandstone; pantile roof. Originally 2-cell, gable-entry plan, later extended to right; turf house added to left and barn to right. 2-storey, 3-window front to house; turf house of 2 storeys; barn of 1 1/2 storeys. House: half-glazed, panelled door beneath canopy to right of centre. Windows throughout are 2-light, 4-pane casements, with stone sills and diagonally tooled lintels. Tooled lintel over door inscribed: I I W 1789 Coved eaves course to left of door and stepped to right. End and centre stacks. Turf house: no openings to front. Coped gable and shaped kneeler to left. Barn: plank door beneath diagonally tooled lintel. Coped gable and shaped kneeler to right. Rear: chimney stack to right inscribed: 17(indecipherable):GS Interior: ground-floor rooms to left of passage have chamfered beams with run-out stops, and chamfered beams.

Listing NGR: SE6389093515

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
328845
Legacy System:
LBS

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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