Low House
LOW HOUSE, HARPER LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1251691
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Low House
- Statutory Address:
- LOW HOUSE, HARPER LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1251691
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Low House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOW HOUSE, HARPER 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.
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:
- LOW HOUSE, HARPER LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Thornthwaite with Padside
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 16527 59527
Details
THORNTHWAITE WITH PADSIDE HARPER LANE SE 15 NE (east side)
13/158 Low House
- II
House. Dated 1769. Coursed squared gritstone, graduated stone slate roof. 2 storeys with attic and cellars beneath south end; direct-entry plan, one room deep. Plinth and quoins. Main facade away from road, facing south- east: central C20 panelled door in projecting keyed surround. Flanking it on each floor are 3-light flat-faced mullion windows, mullions recessed, each with one mullion removed, and projecting sill bands. Stone plaque in stone surround first floor centre, has inscription ' B '. Shaped stone J M 1769 gutter brackets, shaped kneeler, gable coping, end stacks. Right return: attic storey lit by Venetian window. Interior: a stone newel stair built into the centre of the rear wall. Cellar contains a covered well under the stone stairs. Roof structure: 3 raised cruck trusses with through purlins and collar supporting king post and ridge purlin.
Listing NGR: SE1652759527
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 434469
- 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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