MURK HEAD FARMHOUSE

MURK HEAD FARMHOUSE, GATELA LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1296664
Date first listed:: 26-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: MURK HEAD FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: MURK HEAD FARMHOUSE, GATELA LANE

Front view (west facing) of Murk Head Farmhouse, taken from the field August 2024 — Uploaded by Pamela Norrington This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1296664
Date first listed:: 26-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: MURK HEAD FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: MURK HEAD FARMHOUSE, GATELA 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: MURK HEAD FARMHOUSE, GATELA LANE

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Harwood Dale
National Park:: NORTH YORK MOORS
National Grid Reference:: SE 95092 95724

Details

SE 99 NE HARWOOD DALE GATELA ROAD (west side, off) 2/27 Murk Head Farmhouse -

- II

Farmhouse. c1740. Squared grey sandstone. Slate roof. Brick stacks. Direct-entry plan, one and a half rooms deep. 2-storey and attic, symmetrical 3-window front. Central C20 hall-glazed door under rectangular fanlight in round-arched opening with keystone. Doorcase of open dentilled pediment on panelled pilasters. C20 pivoted windows with glazing bars in all original openings with keyed lintels. Rear entry has 4-panel door with rectangular fanlight and glazing bars. Firewindow in right gable wall. Coped gable ends and plain kneelers to double span roof. End stacks to front span, one end stack to rear span. Interior: C18 panelled doors to all ground floor rooms.

Listing NGR: SE9509295724

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 326895
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.