Fern Cottage

FERN COTTAGE, RAILWAY STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1173345
Date first listed:
22-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
Fern Cottage
Statutory Address:
FERN COTTAGE, RAILWAY STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1173345
Date first listed:
22-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
Fern Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
FERN COTTAGE, RAILWAY STREET

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
FERN COTTAGE, RAILWAY STREET

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Slingsby
National Grid Reference:
SE6981575047

Details

SE 6975
9/168

SLINGSBY
RAILWAY STREET
(east side)
Fern Cottage

GV
II

House. Mid C18 with later alterations. Limestone rubble brought to course,
pantile roof. Originally 3-cell lobby-entry plan, now altered. 2 storeys,
5 bays. Late C20 board door to third bay. 16-pane sashes throughout except
for narrow casements to first bay and blocked opening above door. Flat
stone arches to ground floor. Swept roof, gable coping, shaped kneelers,
end and ridge stacks. Interior: 2 principal trusses of roof visible.
Principals halved and pegged at apex, with trenched purlins, and collars.

Listing NGR: SE6981575047

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

Legacy System number:
329125
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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