Birch House Farmhouse and Attached Stable

BIRCH HOUSE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED STABLE, HARTOFT BECK

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1315704
Date first listed:
27-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:
Birch House Farmhouse and Attached Stable
Statutory Address:
BIRCH HOUSE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED STABLE, HARTOFT BECK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1315704
Date first listed:
27-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:
Birch House Farmhouse and Attached Stable
Statutory Address 1:
BIRCH HOUSE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED STABLE, HARTOFT BECK

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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.

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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:
BIRCH HOUSE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED STABLE, HARTOFT BECK

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Hartoft
National Park:
North York Moors
National Grid Reference:
SE 75725 95453

Details

HARTOFT HARTOFT BECK NORTH YORKSHIRE RYEDALE 5340 SE 79 NE (east side) 5/33 Birch House Farmhouse and attached Stable II - Farmhouse and attached stable. 1671, dated on kneeler, for Tom Page. Rebuilt in 1804, incorporating remains of earlier house, for John Harland; later C19 alteration. Herringbone-tooled sandstone to front and left return, on earlier footings; coursed rubble stone to right return and rear; pantile roof. 3-cell, hearth-passage plan with outshut to high end. 2-storey, 2-window high end, with lower 2-storey, 2-window low end to left. Board door to low end, with 2-light, large-pane horizontal-sliding sash to left: 2-light, 12-pane horizontal-sliding sash above. Roughly herringbone- tooled lintels to these openings. Further to left is a stable door with a plank shuttered pitching window to left. Openings to high end are 6-pane sashes in plain raised surrounds with vertically-tooled sills. Coped gables and shaped kneelers. End stacks to high end, and centre stack to low end. Left return: kneeler to front of building incorporates an earlier datestone and records the C19 rebuilding. Inscription reads: P I H IR1671TP 1804 Rear: single-storey outshut with catslide roof to high end. Plank door to cross passage in low end. Interior: in the room to left of the door an early Cl9 stone fireplace with a corbelled mantel shelf survives, complete with crane and reckon. House for sale at time of resurvey. The sales particulars indicate that the interior is unmodernised.

Listing NGR: SE7572595453

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
382451
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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