Kirkness Cottage
KIRKNESS COTTAGE, 35, BRIGGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1189826
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Kirkness Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- KIRKNESS COTTAGE, 35, BRIGGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1189826
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Kirkness Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- KIRKNESS COTTAGE, 35, BRIGGATE
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:
- KIRKNESS COTTAGE, 35, BRIGGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Knaresborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 35020 56738
Details
SE 3556 KNARESBOROUGH BRIGGATE (east side)
9/73 No 35 Kirkness Cottage
GV II
House. Late C16 with C20 restoration. Timber-framed, rendered, pantile roof. 2 storeys, 2 first-floor rooms; lower 2-storey 1-bay addition to right. Main range: Central C20 door with panelled passage door to left. C20 small-paned windows to right and first foor. Wall plate beneath eaves. End stack to right. Addition: C20 windows. Left return: first floor and gable visible, with wall posts and curved braces of original timber-framing. Applied timber to gable. Interior not inspected at resurvey. The building was examined c1980 when wall posts, 2 roof-trusses with collars, purlins and commmon rafters were recorded. One truss was closed with studs on wattle and daub panels. The building is partly cut out of the bedrock; the original plan was a single room with cross passage and fire bay, and all original features remain. North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group, Report Number 515 (1979).
Listing NGR: SE3502056738
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 330736
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report in Report Number 515, (1979)
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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