Percy Rigg Farmhouse and Attached Cowhouse Range
PERCY RIGG FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED COWHOUSE RANGE, PERCY CROSS RIGG
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1189237
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Percy Rigg Farmhouse and Attached Cowhouse Range
- Statutory Address:
- PERCY RIGG FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED COWHOUSE RANGE, PERCY CROSS RIGG
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1189237
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Percy Rigg Farmhouse and Attached Cowhouse Range
- Statutory Address 1:
- PERCY RIGG FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED COWHOUSE RANGE, PERCY CROSS RIGG
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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:
- PERCY RIGG FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED COWHOUSE RANGE, PERCY CROSS RIGG
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kildale
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 62907 10223
Details
KILDALE PERCY CROSS RIG NZ 61 SW North-east side (off) 2/135 Percy Rigg Farmhouse and attached cowhouse range
II
Farmhouse and attached cowhouse range. Probably c.1700, raised and remodelled 1783 for Charles Turner (datestone); later alterations. Cowhouse range late C18 and early C19. Rubblestone brought to course; pantile roofs with stone coping and ridges. 2-storey, 3-bay house with lower cowhouse with loft over with further cowhouse ranges added to front of it, forming courtyard, on left. Garden elevation: farmhouse: plinth. Blocked doorway on right of bay 1. Doorway on left of bay 3 with C20 board door. Tripartite sash windows with projecting sills; inserted C20 first-floor window to left of right bay. Ground-floor openings have herringbone-tooled lintels with raised keystones, that over door dated. Eaves band. Shaped kneelers. Stacks at end and between right bays. Cowhouse on left masked by later courtyard which is lower; of coursed rubble, with plinth, quoins, eaves band, some blocked and some later openings, and hipped roof, the pantiles partly replaced by corrugated asbestos. Rear: house: C20 gabled brick porch. Various C19 and C20 windows with herringbone-tooled sills and lintels, but a 12-pane side-sliding sash survives on 1st floor, centre. Eaves band. Shaped kneelers. Cowhouse: board door to left; inserted double door on right with blocked doorway to its right. Slit vents and blocked pitching hole to left gable of cowhouse.
Charles Turner, for whom this house was built (or rebuilt) was an agricultural improver who built or rebuilt, a number of farmhouses on the Kildale Estate.
Listing NGR: NZ6290710223
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 333194
- 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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