Overtown Grange Farmhouse
OVERTOWN GRANGE FARMHOUSE, THE BALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200137
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Overtown Grange Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- OVERTOWN GRANGE FARMHOUSE, THE BALK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200137
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Overtown Grange Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- OVERTOWN GRANGE FARMHOUSE, THE BALK
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:
- OVERTOWN GRANGE FARMHOUSE, THE BALK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Walton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 35592 16544
Details
SE31NE WALTON THE BALK
3/45 Overtown Grange Farmhouse
II
House. Late C17 with mid-C20 alteration. Well-coursed punch-dressed stone, modern concrete tile roof. 2 storeys with single-storey rear outshut. 3-cell plan with service rooms to rear of 1st and 2nd cells. Quoins. Continuous dripmould rising over former door. All windows are altered with lowered sills and most mullions removed but still retain shallow double-chamfered surrounds with almost square reveals. From left to right: former 4-light window with same above; blocked window and window inserted in original doorway; 4-light window to each floor. Coped gables with kneelers and brick stacks; one other ridge stack at junction of first 2 cells. Rear: original doorway obscured by later lean-to, small chamfered window above. Outshut breaks forward and has a 3-light window to left of two 2-light windows with windows above inserted under eaves. Left-hand return has large external stone stack with shouldered offsets and doorway to right with quoined lintel and tie-stone jambs. Gable partly rendered at lst-floor level.
Interior: 1st cell (former kitchen) has a wide fireplace opening with a shallow segmental head (blocked). King-post roof. RCHM (England) report.
Listing NGR: SE3559216544
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342349
- 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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