Well Farm House

WELL FARM HOUSE, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1315435
Date first listed:
12-Dec-1988
List Entry Name:
Well Farm House
Statutory Address:
WELL FARM HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1315435
Date first listed:
12-Dec-1988
List Entry Name:
Well Farm House
Statutory Address 1:
WELL FARM HOUSE, 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:
WELL FARM HOUSE, MAIN STREET

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Great Ouseburn
National Grid Reference:
SE 44759 61895

Details

GREAT OUSEBURN MAIN STREET SE 4461-4561 (north-east side) 9/12 Well Farm House GV II House. Late C17-early C18; extended, modernised and front rebuilt c.1970. Timber-framed, with infill of red brick in stretcher bond; pantile roof. 2-storey, 4-bay front. (Entrance in extension porch in right return.) Front windows are 3-light, small-paned casements with brick sills. Left end and right-of-centre stacks. Interior: three pairs of jowled posts survive, some with curved braces. Fireplace in room to left of door has chamfer-stopped bressummer which extends to form door arch. Doorway retains one chamfer-stopped jamb. Studded rear wall. Harrison, B, and Hutton, B, Vernacular Houses in N.Yorkshire and Cleveland, pp.35, 123 and 124; fig.7.2.

Listing NGR: SE4475961895

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331827
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Sources

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Harrison, B, Hutton, B, Vernacular Houses in North Yorkshire and Cleveland, (1984), 35 123-4

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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