THE LOW HOUSE

THE LOW HOUSE, KELD HEAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1241221
Date first listed:: 27-Nov-1975
List Entry Name:: THE LOW HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE LOW HOUSE, KELD HEAD

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Date:: 2003-04-17
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1241221
Date first listed:: 27-Nov-1975
List Entry Name:: THE LOW HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE LOW HOUSE, KELD HEAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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

Location

Statutory Address:: THE LOW HOUSE, KELD HEAD

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Pickering
National Grid Reference:: SE 78718 84591

Details

KELD HEAD 1. 5340 (North Side) The Low House SE 7884 16/267 II GV 2. C17 house. 2 storeys in small coursed stone with pantile roof with coped gable ends and 3 brick stacks. Heavy ivy cover. 3 windows, wood lintels, casements with leaded lights. 3 windows and door to ground floor. To left, adjoining outbuilding with 1 window and ventilation slit over carriage entry. 2 blocked openings to ground floor with wood lintels. Lower extension with ventilation openings. Windows to rear wing have wood lintels. Formerly - the home of the Piper family, the owners of Captain Scoresby's whaling ship.

Farmhouse between Keld Head Farm and The Low House and its Farm buildings form a group with The Low House and Keld Head Farmhouse (West).

Listing NGR: SE7871884595

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Legacy System number:: 440184
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.