RAVENSNEST AND ATTACHED FARM BUILDINGS RAVENSNEST AND THE BEECHES

RAVENSNEST AND ATTACHED FARM BUILDINGS, GIN LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1260578
Date first listed:: 30-Aug-1995
List Entry Name:: RAVENSNEST AND ATTACHED FARM BUILDINGS RAVENSNEST AND THE BEECHES
Statutory Address:: RAVENSNEST AND ATTACHED FARM BUILDINGS, GIN LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1260578
Date first listed:: 30-Aug-1995
Date of most recent amendment:: 13-Dec-1995
List Entry Name:: RAVENSNEST AND ATTACHED FARM BUILDINGS RAVENSNEST AND THE BEECHES
Statutory Address 1:: RAVENSNEST AND ATTACHED FARM BUILDINGS, GIN LANE
Statutory Address 2:: RAVENSNEST AND THE BEECHES, GIN LANE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: RAVENSNEST AND ATTACHED FARM BUILDINGS, GIN LANE
Statutory Address:: RAVENSNEST AND THE BEECHES, GIN LANE

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

County:: Derbyshire
District:: North East Derbyshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Ashover
National Grid Reference:: SK 34723 61675

Details

ASHOVER SK36SW GIN LANE 1264-0/7/44 (West side (off)) Ravensnest and attached farm buildings II Marked on Ordnance Survey map as Ravensnest Farm. House and farm buildings. House late C17 with late C18 and mid C20 alterations. Coursed squared sandstone with slate roof. Chimneys on ridge of main range and at junction with cross-wing. T-plan. North facade has cross-wing at left of 2 storeys plus attic and one bay. Its windows are of 2 lights separated by mullions and have architraves and moulded cornices. The sill of the ground-floor window has been lowered. At the apex of the roof there is a cornice above an illegible inscribed plaque. Straight joints in the stonework of the main range to the right suggest that it may originally have been of one storey with attic dormers. The bay to the left of the doorway has 2-light mullioned windows with architraves (the ground-floor sill lowered). To the right of the door, which has a quoined surround, there is a glazing bar sash window set within the surround of a blocked mullioned window, with a second blocked mullioned window to the right. On the lst floor there are 2 casement windows with stone surrounds. At the far right, built partly into the slope of the ground and showing evidence of alteration, is a further bay which has a window with plain reveals on the ground floor and one with a stone surround on the 1st floor. The left-hand (east) wall of the cross-wing has 2 bays which have 2-light mullioned windows with architraves. Between them is a 3rd bay, inserted c1950 in a similar style, with a lst-floor window and ground-floor doorway. The rear wall of the cross-wing has similar 2-light windows lighting a stair. The south wall of the main range has irregular fenestration and includes a window set within a C17 moulded door surround with triangular head. On the 1st floor there is a plaque inscribed: 'I ? GR 1796'. To the south is a courtyard enclosed on the north by the house and on the other 3 sides by stables, cow-houses, and other farm buildings, attached to the house and continuous except for an entrance on the west side. The eastern range has a stone slate roof and is of a single storey, with 3 doorways with stone surrounds, and 2 windows between the 2 right-hand doorways. At the left the building is lower where it abuts the house and has a window with a doorway to its right. The south range is also of a single storey and has a roof of slate or artificial slate, a doorway with quoined surround which has windows to left and right, and 2 doorways with stone surrounds further right. The west range is taller and has a roof of slate and concrete tile. On the ground floor there are 6 windows, with a doorway to the right of the 2nd window. On the 1st floor there are 2 pitching holes. A lower part to the right has 2 windows, and a doorway with a lintel inscribed 'I - 79 I'. Also on the west side of the courtyard, adjoining the house, is a 2-storey building with coped gable which includes a doorway in its east wall.

Listing NGR: SK3472361675

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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.