Masongill House
MASONGILL HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252860
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Masongill House
- Statutory Address:
- MASONGILL HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252860
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Masongill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MASONGILL HOUSE
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:
- MASONGILL HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Thornton in Lonsdale
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 66576 75387
Details
THORNTON IN LONSDALE MASONGILL SD 67 NE 5/2 Masongill House 20.2.58 - II House. c1780 with mid-C19 alterations. Rendered, millstone grit dressings, stone slate roof. Central staircase plan. Garden front: 2 storeys, 3 bays. Central entrance within wooden trellised porch, plain surround, 9 panel door, blocked fanlight. Flanking ground floor and outer 2 upper floor windows are 2-light flat faced mullioned. Central upper floor single light window; sashes. Chamfered quoins. Moulded modillioned eaves cornice (probably mid C19) broken in centre by round headed dormer window with fixed light; open pediment above supported on scrolled brackets with ball finial (also probably mid-C19). Large kneelers and ball finials. Projecting gable end ridge stacks. House enlarged mid-cl9 by flanking one storey one bay pavilion which breaks forward, of ashlar. Large window to gable end of each wing with moulded surround. Pilasters support open pediment. Exposed purlins to projecting eaves. Left-hand return contains canted bay window; sashes. Rear: refronted mid-C19, with c1860 gabled porch. Chamfered round head, open pediment and ball finial. Chamfered surround to entrance, 4 panel door, upper 2 glazed with Gothic revival glazing. Similar but blind tracery above. Interior: dog-leg staircase with open string, stick balusters, ramped handrail.
Listing NGR: SD6657675387
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 435968
- 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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