Gorton Lodge, Garden Walls, Gate and Gate-piers
GORTON LODGE, GARDEN WALLS, GATE AND GATE-PIERS, HATTERS ROOF
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1179799
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Gorton Lodge, Garden Walls, Gate and Gate-piers
- Statutory Address:
- GORTON LODGE, GARDEN WALLS, GATE AND GATE-PIERS, HATTERS ROOF
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1179799
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Gorton Lodge, Garden Walls, Gate and Gate-piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- GORTON LODGE, GARDEN WALLS, GATE AND GATE-PIERS, HATTERS ROOF
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:
- GORTON LODGE, GARDEN WALLS, GATE AND GATE-PIERS, HATTERS ROOF
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Melbecks
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD9804797713
Details
SD 99 NE
15/100
MELBECKS
HATTERS ROOF
Gorton Lodge, garden walls, gate and gate- piers
GV
II
House and cottage, now house, and garden walls, gate and gate-piers.
C17 cottage, early C18 house. House: coursed sandstone, stone slate
roof, with ashlar stacks. 2 storeys, 5 bays, double range. Rusticated
quoins. Openings have moulded ashlar architraves. Central doorway with
C20 part-glazed door below plain fanlight. Ground floor: sash windows,
moulded string course immediately above lintels. First floor windows,
sashes with glazing bars. Moulded stone gutter, shaped kneelers, ashlar
copings. End stacks and ridge stacks between bays 2 and 3, all with
classical cornices. Cottage to right: rubble with quoins, stone slate
roof. 2 storeys, lower than house. 2 first floor windows with ashlar
sills and lintels, remains of mullioned window in between. Shaped
kneelers, ashlar copings, stacks end and middle. Garden wall of rubble,
with coping, drops in front of house. Ashlar panelled gate-piers on
plinth with cornice and pyramidal caps at right angles to left end of
house. Plain wrought-iron gate. Side wall on right continues round
walled garden. In C18, the house of the Fryers, later the Parkes,
involved in local knitting industry.
Listing NGR: SD9804797713
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 322040
- 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.
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