Abbey Cottage
ABBEY COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1179439
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- ABBEY COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1179439
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBEY COTTAGE
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:
- ABBEY COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Spennithorne
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 13967 88631
Details
SE 18 NW SPENNITHORNE OLD HALL
3/107 Abbey Cottage
GV II
Part of medieval complex forming Spennithorne 0ldHall, now a house. C14, with extensive remodelling. Rubble, artificial slate roof. 2 storeys, 2 offset, parallel ranges with C20 single-storey extension to left, the 2 ranges having 3 and 2 C20 first-floor windows to south elevation, with ruined section to right. Fragments of old masonry and blocked windows. At rear of side elevations, the medieval external doorways of a screens passage, 1 glazed, 1 blocked , with pointed double-chamfered arches with hollow mouldings to chamfers. Interior: 4 original doorways of screens passage, 3 with shouldered doorheads and chamfered openings leading to pantry, kitchen and buttery, the fourth to the staircase. The hall of the Fitz Randalls of Spennithorne. 'NYCVBSG Report', No 667; Harrison and Hutton, Vernacular Houses in North Yorkshire and Cleveland, 1984, p25: picture of screens passage doorways.
Listing NGR: SE1396788631
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321716
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Harrison, B, Hutton, B, Vernacular Houses in North Yorkshire and Cleveland, (1984), 25
North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report in Report Number 667, ()
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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