Highfield Farmhouse
HIGHFIELD FARMHOUSE, NUNNINGTON TO NESS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1172791
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Highfield Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHFIELD FARMHOUSE, NUNNINGTON TO NESS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1172791
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Highfield Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHFIELD FARMHOUSE, NUNNINGTON TO NESS 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.
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:
- HIGHFIELD FARMHOUSE, NUNNINGTON TO NESS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Nunnington
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 68066 78834
Details
NUNNINGTON NUNNINGTON TO NESS ROAD SE 67 NE (south side, off) 5/64 Highfield Farmhouse
- II
Farmhouse. Mid C18, with early C19 extension and later C19 alteration. Dressed sandy limestone with concrete pantile roof and brick stacks. Original house central-stairhall plan, 2 rooms deep; extended at side. 2- storey, 2-window C18 front, at right of 2-storey, 3-window C19 extension. Older part has 4-panel door beneath painted keyed round arch. 16-pane sash with painted timber lintel at right, and 2-light, 12-pane horizontal-sliding sash with painted, keyed flat arch at left. 2-light, large-pane casement at left of first floor and 2-light, large-pane horizontal-sliding sash at right, both with painted keyblock arches and painted sills. End stacks. C19 end has two 16-pane sashes on ground floor and 2 on first floor above; at right end a tall, unequal, 15-pane sash. All windows have painted grooved and hammered wedge lintels and painted stone sills. Left end stack. Rear: 2-storey, 3-window C18 part and 2-storey, 2-window C19 part at right. C18 part has 24-pane sashes on ground floor. Inserted top-opening light at centre of first floor, with 16-pane sash at left, and 2-light, large-pane horizontal-sliding sash at right. Painted flat arches with keyblocks and painted sills to all windows. Yard bell at right end. Panelled door beneath blocked overlight in C19 end, and 16-pane sashes with painted sills on both floors. All openings have painted grooved and hammered wedge lintels. Right return: 6-panel door with divided fanlight, beneath painted keyed round arch. 2-light, large-pane casement beneath keyed flat arch in gable end. Interior. C18 part: closed-string, dogleg staircase with Chinese Chippendale balustrade and ramped-up moulded handrail. In room to right of front door dado rail survives, and original corner chimney-piece with plain surround and moulded shelf beneath later alterations. Ground- floor doors, shutters and window recesses all of raised and fielded panelling. C19 part has closed-string, dogleg staircase with reeded balusters, turned newels, and moulded handail ramped up to landings. In the kitchen a segment-arched fireplace with complete Yates of Malton range survives. All doors and shutters are of raised and fielded panelling.
Listing NGR: SE6806678834
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 329327
- 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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