Shepherds Cottage
Shepherds Cottage, Danby Head, Danby, YO21 2NN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1178639
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Shepherds Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- Shepherds Cottage, Danby Head, Danby, YO21 2NN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1178639
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Shepherds Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- Shepherds Cottage, Danby Head, Danby, YO21 2NN
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, Danby Head, Danby, YO21 2NN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Danby
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 68801 04424
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16/01/2019
NZ 60 SE
10/40
DANBY
DANBY HEAD
Shepherds Cottage
(Formerly listed as Outbuilding to south-west of Stormy Hall DANBY DALE (west side))
GV
II
Former cottage and barn. Dated 1795 with initials W and MD on a door lintel, but barn could be older. Coursed, tooled sandstone, pantiled roof. Three builds. One-storey left one-bay cottage. Barn two storeys, five irregular bays. Cottage has Dutch door under the dated lintel; three-light chamfered mullioned window to left with one light blocked and I mullion removed. Corniced left end stack. Main range has four Dutch doors, one under a lintel dated 1777. On upper floor one loading door, one blacksmith's window and four slit vents under eaves. Right bay canted back. Stepped eaves, stone gable copings on square kneelers.
Inside, a stout upper cruck truss, halved at apex.
Listing NGR: NZ6880104424
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 327958
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Houses of the North York Moors, (1987), 101
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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