Scow Cottage and Attached Outbuilding and Garden Wall
SCOW COTTAGE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING AND GARDEN WALL, BRAT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174636
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Scow Cottage and Attached Outbuilding and Garden Wall
- Statutory Address:
- SCOW COTTAGE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING AND GARDEN WALL, BRAT LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174636
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Scow Cottage and Attached Outbuilding and Garden Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- SCOW COTTAGE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING AND GARDEN WALL, BRAT LANE
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:
- SCOW COTTAGE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING AND GARDEN WALL, BRAT LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Norwood
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 20037 52160
Details
NORWOOD BRAT LANE SE 25 SW (north side) 7/76 Scow Cottage and attached outbuilding and garden wall 22.11.66 (formerly listed as scow Cottage and outbuildings) GV II
House. Dated 1619 with late C17 alterations and C20 restoration. Coursed squared gritstone, graduated stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 2 bays with central single-storey gabled open porch. Porch: incised single-piece segmental arch to doorcase on moulded imposts; ball finial to gable. Inner door of 4 panels; shallow triangular doorhead with lintel inscribed "IAP 1619". Recessed chamfered mullion windows throughout plus returned hoodmould to 2 large ground-floor windows; single light to left of porch; ground floor left - a 5-light window, the right light blocked; to right of porch al-light window, 1 mullion removed. First floor, left - 5 lights, reduced to 4; right - 5 lights; these windows are shorter than those to ground floor and are set under deep eaves. Bulbous kneelers, gable copings, end stacks, that to left corniced, that to right reduced. Interior: main room to right of entrance: fireplace of 2 main phases: wooden bressumer beam "(I)668" supported by chamfered stone jambs with inscription (A)MP ; probable base of stone stairs to right of fireplace; ogee head to oven entrance. Ground floor, left: parlour fireplace with cambered arch and syma-moulded chamfer. The inner faces of the jambs to both ground-floor windows have slots and holes into which horizontal bars could be fitted. A spine beam carries the upper floor. First floor, right: the stone fireplace has a " A P " plaque with an inscrition: M . An important house because of the 1668 survival of a dated stone chimney providing heated rooms on ground and first floor. Garden wall to left and enclosing front garden: approximately 3 metres high to left of house, pierced by a gate with a (probably imitation) lintel carved with the date 1619. The wall steps down to approximately 1.25 metres high as it follows a curve to enclose the front garden; chamfered coping stones. Outbuilding at right angle to right: possibly late C18 reusing C17 masonry. 1 storey, 4 bays; roll moulding to doors bays 2 and 4, both with tie-stone jambs; recessed chamfered windows, of 2 lights to bay l and of 4 lights to bay 3. Gable copings, reduced stack to left. Interior not inspected. North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report No 402 (1978).
Listing NGR: SE2003752160
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 331469
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report in North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report, Vol. 402, ()
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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