Usha Top
USHA TOP, HIGH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1179426
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Usha Top
- Statutory Address:
- USHA TOP, HIGH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1179426
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Usha Top
- Statutory Address 1:
- USHA TOP, HIGH 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:
- USHA TOP, HIGH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Grinton
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 99279 97882
Details
GRINTON HIGH LANE SD 99 NE (north side off) Whitaside 15/43 Usha Top GV II House. Dated 1662. Coursed watershot sandstone with ashlar dressings, stone slate roof. 2-cell axial stack plan of 2 storeys, added rear outshut. Crude quoins. Boarded door to left has chamfered quoined surround, deep lintel with triangular soffit has panel with date. A secondary doorway with boarded door inserted on right. 2 ground floor windows: left window has unequally-hung sash with glazing bars in stone surround, the lintel being an upturned 3-light mullioned-window lintel; to right 3-light, now 2-light, chamfered mullioned window with weather course above. Both first floor windows have unequally-hung sashes with glazing bars, the sill of the left window being a re-used drip mould. Raised coping on left. 3 stacks, at ends and a larger one between the 2 rooms. Harrison B. and Hutton B., Vernacular Houses in North Yorkshire and Cleveland, 1984, p 88. 'NYCVBSG Report', No 688.
Listing NGR: SD9927997882
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321981
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Harrison, B, Hutton, B, Vernacular Houses in North Yorkshire and Cleveland, (1984), 88
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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