Shepherds Cottage
SHEPHERDS COTTAGE, TARN HOUSE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174348
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Shepherds Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- SHEPHERDS COTTAGE, TARN HOUSE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174348
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1958
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Shepherds Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHEPHERDS COTTAGE, TARN HOUSE 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:
- SHEPHERDS COTTAGE, TARN HOUSE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Malham Moor
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 88754 67365
Details
SD 86 NE MALHAM MOOR TARN HOUSE ROAD (north side)
Shepherds Cottage 14/138 (formerly listed as Waterhouses Old Farm- 20.2.58 house)
- II
House. Dated 1635 with late C18 early C19 raised eaves and reroofing. Coursed gritstone rubble, graduated grey slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays with 2-storey porch between bays 1 and 2, and rear outshut. Quoins. Board door to porch in sawn stone surround; reset datestone above with raised lettering, "MT 1635 MT". Board door bay 3. Recessed chamfered mullion windows throughout, of 4,5 and 5 lights with cavetto moulded mullions and hoodmoulds to ground floor; of 3,4 and 4 lights to first floor; of 2 lights to porch first floor and its right return. Stone gutter brackets, shaped kneelers and gable coping to main range, hipped roof to porch. Ridge stack to right of porch and at gables. A reset datestone on the east wall of the porch has the letters "W 164- S". The house retains its C17 plan, but the reset dated lintels, tall ground-floor windows, and raised eaves produce a house of C18 or C19 proportions. The initials M.T. are thought to stand for Matthew Towler and his wife, descendants of the Toller family who farmed Water Houses for the Fountains Abbey Estate at the Dissolution. A. Raistrick, Malham and Malham Moor, 1947 (reprinted 1983), p.103.
Listing NGR: SD8875467365
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 324724
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Raistrick, A, Malham and Malham Moor, (1983), 103
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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