Low Cleaves

LOW CLEAVES, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1293554
Date first listed:
02-Feb-1990
List Entry Name:
Low Cleaves
Statutory Address:
LOW CLEAVES, MAIN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1293554
Date first listed:
02-Feb-1990
List Entry Name:
Low Cleaves
Statutory Address 1:
LOW CLEAVES, MAIN STREET

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
LOW CLEAVES, MAIN STREET

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Sutton-under-Whitestonecliffe
National Grid Reference:
SE 49558 83180

Details

SUTTON-UNDER-WHITESTONECLIFFE MAIN STREET SE 48 SE (NORTH SIDE, OFF ) 6/39 LOW CLEAVES - II Farmhouse. Mid C18, added to and altered c1800. Red and pink brick in English garden wall bond with coursed squared stone to rear and to left return; pantile roof. 2 Storeys, 1:2 bays, the left bay a taller addition. The two right-hand bays have, on left, steps up to door which has an upper, round-arched, glazed panel with Gothic glazing bars and wooden surround with fluted pilasters and entablature; on right, a 16-pane sash with glazing bars, 2-panel shutters and stone lintel; lst-floor 2-course band and two 12-pane side-sliding sashes with stone cills; stepped and dentilled eaves; rebuilt stack at right end. Left-hand bay has a large 16-pane sash with glazing bars, flush wood architrave and panelled shutters below a sash with glazing bars and stone cill; stepped and dentilled eaves; renewed brick end stacks. Rear: herringbone-tooled quoins to right end. Right-hand bay has a small side-sliding sash to ground floor and a similar, larger, 12-pane window above. Similar lst-floor windows flank the tall, round-arched stair window containing a sash with glazing bars which is in the centre of the left-hand bays, and there is another to ground floor left under tripartite lintel with a C20 lean-to porch to right. Later brick stack at left corner. Interior: dog-leg open-string stair with ramped handrail, plain balusters and gun-barrel type newel. Left-hand room has 2 good 6-panel doors with architraves, a wall cupboard, a decorative frieze and moulded dentilled cornice. Right-hand room has a good cast-iron basket grate, the fireplace surround having a moulded edge. Deeds held by the occupants record that there was a building here in 1643. There is evidence of a former brick-walled building to the right of the house.

Listing NGR: SE4955883180

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
332573
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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