Downe House Farmhouse
DOWNE HOUSE FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293626
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Downe House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- DOWNE HOUSE FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293626
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Downe House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOWNE HOUSE FARMHOUSE, 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.
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:
- DOWNE HOUSE FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sessay
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 45688 75234
Details
SESSAY MAIN STREET SE 47 NE (west side) 4/41 Downe House Farmhouse - II Public house, now farmhouse, and attached cottage, now part of house. Mid C19 by G T Andrews. Cottage later C19. Pinkish brick in English garden wall bond (5:1) with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate and pantile roofs. 2 storeys with attic. 3 bays with 2-storey rear outshut to right and rear wing to left with cottage attached Rusticated quoins; raised, quoined, double-chamfered window surrounds; moulded first floor string; eaves cornice. Central bay has full-height gabled porch rising above eaves with: hollow-chamfered, Tudor-arched doorway with 4-panel door (top panels glazed) and cornice; returning; above door, architrave frames brick panel, formally bearing coat of arms; on first floor, tall cross-window with small sash to each light; quatrefoil above. Flanking porch on each floor, a narrow window, transomed on first floor, with sashes. Outer bays each have: a flat-roofed bay window with cross-window to front, transomed side-lights, cornice, parapet, and cornice formed by continuation of first floor string; cross-windows to first floor; gabled dormers above with 4-pane sashes. All gables have raised verges with moulded kneelers, coping. Corniced end stacks with tripled flues, and another cross-ridge stack. Rear: outshut has 4-panel door on right; paired, gabled, half-dormers; wing has pantile roof. Right return: at rear, sashes with glazing bars. Left return: 2-bay wing adjoining house then 1-bay added cottage, each having door, side-sliding sashes to ground floor and sashes with glazing bars under flat brick arches to first floor. Continuation of wing altered and not of special interest.
Listing NGR: SE4568875234
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 332899
- 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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