TOWN HEAD HOUSE

TOWN HEAD HOUSE, TOWN HEAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1179375
Date first listed:: 06-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:: TOWN HEAD HOUSE
Statutory Address:: TOWN HEAD HOUSE, TOWN HEAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1179375
Date first listed:: 06-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:: TOWN HEAD HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: TOWN HEAD HOUSE, TOWN HEAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: TOWN HEAD HOUSE, TOWN HEAD

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Carlton Town
National Park:: YORKSHIRE DALES
National Grid Reference:: SE 06216 84533

Details

CARLTON TOWN TOWN HEAD SE 0684-0784 16/80 Town Head House GV II

Farmhouse. Dated 1714, with later C18 addition. Coursed rubble, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, double-depth plan, the rear range being an addition, 2 first-floor windows. Quoins. Central C20 part-glazed door in chamfered quoined surround, lintel carved with a shield bearing raised characters "H M 1714". Double-chamfered mullion windows, altered on ground floor: 2-light, formerly 4-light to left; 2-light, formerly 4-light now increased in height to right; 3-light on first floor. 2-span roof with kneelers and ashlar copings. End stacks to front range. Rear: on ground floor, surround of 2-light double-chamfered mullion window; shaped kneelers. Right return of front range: double-chamfered surround of single-light ground-floor window.

Listing NGR: SE0621684533

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 322562
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.