Ghyll Head Cottages
GHYLL HEAD COTTAGES, TOWNHEAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1289364
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Ghyll Head Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- GHYLL HEAD COTTAGES, TOWNHEAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1289364
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Ghyll Head Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- GHYLL HEAD COTTAGES, TOWNHEAD
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:
- GHYLL HEAD COTTAGES, TOWNHEAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Horton in Ribblesdale
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD8113172273
Details
SD 8072-8172
15/16
HORTON IN RIBBLESDALE
TOWNHEAD
Ghyll Head Cottages
GV
II
Formerly farmhouse, now 2 cottages. Mid-late-C17 with C19 and C20 alterations.
Right-hand cottage: pebbledash, painted stone dressings slate roof. 2 storeys,
2 bays. Left-hand entrance in early C20 porch, plain surround to entrance,
6 panel door, upper 4 glazed. Right-hand ground floor C20 casement window.
Upper floor left-hand basket arched chamfered window and right-hand 3-light
chamfered mullioned window; casements and fixed lights. Right-hand gable-end
ridge stack. Left-hand cottage, limewashed rubble, slate roof. Upper floor
contains former 2-light chamfered mullioned window, mullion now missing and
sill lowered. Left-hand gable end projecting ridge stack.
Listing NGR: SD8113172273
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 324563
- 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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