Town Head Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding to South-west
TOWN HEAD FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING TO SOUTH-WEST, VILLAGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1179708
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Town Head Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding to South-west
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HEAD FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING TO SOUTH-WEST, VILLAGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1179708
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Town Head Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding to South-west
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN HEAD FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING TO SOUTH-WEST, VILLAGE STREET
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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:
- TOWN HEAD FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING TO SOUTH-WEST, VILLAGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Newbiggin
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 99596 85517
Details
NEWBIGGIN VILLAGE STREET SD 9885-9985 (north side) 14/106 Town Head Farmhouse and attached outbuilding to south-west 25.3.69 (formerly listed as Town End Farmhouse) GV II
Farmhouse and attached outbuilding. House dated 1690, with later alterations; outbuilding of 2 builds, one nearest house probably contemporary with house, addition perhaps C18. Rubble; stone and Welsh slate roofs. 2 storeys. House: T-shaped, with contemporary rear wing. 2 first-floor windows. Central single-storey gabled porch, formerly of 2 storeys. Ashlar quoined triangular-headed doorway with richly-moulded arris; decorative motifs on spandrels; on lintel, recessed panel with raised characters "REH" "1690" and decorative motifs; shaped kneelers, moulded coping. C20 inner glazed door. Ground-floor windows: C20 segmental bow window to left of porch; immediately to right of porch, blocked fire window with stepped soffit to lintel; C20 casement in surround of 2-light double- chamfered mullion window to right. First floor: sash windows with glazing bars with slab sills and lintels; part of blocked mullion window near second window. Shaped kneeler to right; copings, moulded to right. Welsh slate roof. End stacks, corbelled out from gable and with triangular slate pot. Outbuilding to left: 2 first-floor windows. Ground-floor 4-light double- chamfered mullion window with central king mullion, the first 2 lights blocked and the third mullion missing to form a part-shuttered opening. First floor: blocked 2-light double-chamfered mullion window; C20 casement window in surround of 2-light double-chamfered mullion window. Outbuilding further left: through stones; no openings. Outbuildings have stone slate roof. Rear of house: part surround of ground-floor 2-light double-chamfered mullion window. Rear of middle outbuilding: ground-floor blocked window, formerly of 2 lights, with arched heads to lights in lintel. Rear of wing: 2 blocked single-light chamfered windows on first floor; gable stack. Right (east) return of wing: to right, blocked doorway possibly formerly to staircase beside chimney breast; on ground floor, part of surround of double-chamfered mullion window; on first floor, blocked 2-light double- chamfered mullion window and C20 casement window in surround of 2-light double-chamfered mullion window. North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report No 177.
Listing NGR: SD9959685517
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 322588
- 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. 177, ()
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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