The White House and Attached Walls

THE WHITE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, DIKES LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1188975
Date first listed:
08-May-1989
List Entry Name:
The White House and Attached Walls
Statutory Address:
THE WHITE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, DIKES LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1188975
Date first listed:
08-May-1989
Date of most recent amendment:
07-Jul-1989
List Entry Name:
The White House and Attached Walls
Statutory Address 1:
THE WHITE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, DIKES 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
THE WHITE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, DIKES LANE

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Great Ayton
National Park:
North York Moors
National Grid Reference:
NZ 57723 10958

Details

In the entry for:-

GREAT AYTON DIKES LANE NZ 51 SE 2/37 White House GV II

The entry shall be amended to read:-

NZ 51 SE GREAT AYTON DIKES LANE 2/37 The White House and attached Walls - II House. Mid C18, with late C18 and mid C19 additions. Walls painted roughcast with stone dressings. Pantile roofs with coped gables and moulded kneelers. 5 rendered gable stacks. 2 storey. Original 2 bay centre with set-back later lower 2 storey wings of 2 bays at left and single bay at right. Half-glazed door in right bay under mid C19 canted extruded porch/hood with bargeboards resting on single chamfered wood post. Sash windows with glazing bars, the lower windows have stone keystones, except for french door at right. Attached stone wall and fence to south, with coped and ramped side walls, front wall has rounded topped stone gatepiers with wooden fencing resting on stone plinth. Short stone section to south added C1980. The south front has tall projecting conservatory, with curved bargeboards and finial. Attached to south a stone garden wall, 2 metres high, with attached stone, lean-to privy. Interior has stick balusters staircase, shutters, doors and 2 small mid C18 fireplaces upstairs.

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GREAT AYTON DIKES LANE NZ 51 SE 2/37 White House GV II House, late C18 or early C19, 2 builds. Walls roughcast. Pantiled roof with stone dressings, rendered stacks. 2-storey, 2-bay centre and set-back lower 2-storey wings of 2 bays at left and 1 at right. Half-glazed door in right bay under later canted extruded porch/hood with bargeboards, resting on single chamfered wood post. Sash windows with glazing bars, except for French door at right. Pent left extension with small fixed light. Moulded eaves gutter. Gable copings on big curved kneelers; end chimneys.

Listing NGR: NZ5772310958

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
332965
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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