Sherwood House Farmhouse
SHERWOOD HOUSE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1301140
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Sherwood House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SHERWOOD HOUSE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1301140
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Sherwood House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHERWOOD HOUSE FARMHOUSE
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:
- SHERWOOD HOUSE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stainforth
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 81369 68667
Details
STAINFORTH SHERWOOD BROW SD 86 NW 2/30 Sherwood House Farmhouse 20.2.58 GV II Farmhouse. Dated 1703 with late C18 alterations. Slobbered rubble, stone dressings. Stone slate roof. Direct entry plan. 2 storeys 4 bays. Late C18 entrance in third bay has plain surround or milled stone and gabled slate hood; 4 panel door. To right is ground floor 3-light window with flat faced recessed mullions; above is a dated former doorhead with initials RAT (Robert Anthony Twistleton of Winskill) within a triangular panel which marks the position of the early C18 entrance. On the extreme left are two 2-light double chamfered mullioned windows with a continuous dripmould which rises over the 1703 datestones. Four similar 2-light windows on upper floor. All have C20 casements. Central ridge stack, and left hand gable end ridge stack. Right-hand gable end ridge stack projects and rests on two stone slate corbels. Interior: massive inglenook fireplace (now blocked) with 14 joggled voussoirs and decorated keystone inscribed 1 30. Source: North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group report 546.
Listing NGR: SD8136968667
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 324372
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report in North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report, ()
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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