Nether Heselden
NETHER HESELDEN, LITTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173481
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Nether Heselden
- Statutory Address:
- NETHER HESELDEN, LITTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173481
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1958
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Nether Heselden
- Statutory Address 1:
- NETHER HESELDEN, LITTON 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:
- NETHER HESELDEN, LITTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Halton Gill
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 88708 74614
Details
SD 87 SE HALTON GILL LITTON ROAD (south side, off)
9/80 Nether Heselden (formerly listed as 20.2.58 Heselden)
- II
Farmhouse. Dated 1703 and 1748, with mid-C19 refenestration and reroofing. Coursed gritstone rubble, graduated grey slate roof, stone slates to rear. 2 storeys, 3 x 1½ bays. Quoins. C20 doors and window frames throughout. The main entrance between bays 2 and 3 has plain jambs, entablature and moulded cornice; the service door, bay 1, has a sawn stone surround and there is a large 4-light flat-faced mullion window to left. The remaining windows are all large, those to the ground floor being almost full height, and have sawn stone surrounds. Shaped kneelers and gable copings; end stack and one to ridge between bays 1 and 2. A reset date plaque above the main entrance has the letters " F " above the date "1748" in a moulded T A surround, the "F" flanked by stylised leaf and berry motifs. Rear: a narrow stair window with single transom to left of centre; one 2-light recessed chamfered mullion window, another window with reused C17 surround, the remainder flat-faced mullion windows. Right return: chamfered quoined jambs to doorway, right of centre, the lintel having 2 inscribed plaques, one dated "1703" above the letters, "A B". The masonry of the gable end indicates the refronting of the house and the earlier roof pitch. Interior: main entrance into a narrow hallway with inserted partition left and a solid wall, right. Stairs at end of hall of 2 straight flights have double baluster of C17 form and a moulded handrail. The left bay contains one original kitchen and dairy with slate shelves. Large slate flags have been used to floor the house, and a C19 staircase has post and slate partition. The house was probably built by a member of the Foster family, probably the father of Thomas Foster of Nether Heselden (1743-1770) who was buried at Arncliffe Church. On the site was a farm belonging to Fountains Abbey before the Dissolution. T.D, Whitaker, History of Craven, 1805, 1878, republished 1973, p.573.
Listing NGR: SD8870874614
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 324667
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Whitaker, T D, History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, (1878), 573
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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