South View
SOUTH VIEW, 1 AND 2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296981
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- South View
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH VIEW, 1 AND 2
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296981
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- South View
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTH VIEW, 1 AND 2
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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:
- SOUTH VIEW, 1 AND 2
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Low Abbotside
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 93709 90968
Details
LOW ABBOTSIDE GRANGE SD 99 SW 8/162 1 and 2, South View - II 6 almshouses, now 2 cottages. Built 1807, altered 1880 and subsequently. For Christopher Alderson. Rubble, stone slate roof. Single storey, 6 cells with bay added to left. Quoins. Two C20 part-glazed doors in chamfered ashlar surrounds with slab cornices supported on plain brackets. Original window openings are chamfered ashlar surrounds with hood-moulds, now with casements. From left to right: C20 window in recent addition; doorway; 2 original windows; inserted window; 2 original windows; blocked doorway; inserted window; 2 original windows; doorway. Stacks between windows 1 and 2, 8 and 9. Right return: gable plaque inscribed "These Alms-houses were appointed and endowed in the year 1807 by Christopher Alderson of Hommerton, Middlesex, Esquire. A Native of Askrigg". Originally built to house 6 poor women and called Dale Grange almshouses after the nearby site of Fors Abbey which became a grange of Jervaulx. Reduced to 3 almshouses in 1880, and recently made into 2 cottage. Hartley M & Ingilby J, Yorkshire Village (1979), p 143; VCH i, p 207.
Listing NGR: SD9370990968
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 323187
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hartley, M, Ingilby, J, Yorkshire Village, (1979), 143
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York, (1907), 207
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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