CAMS HOUSE AND RAILINGS

CAMS HOUSE AND RAILINGS, CAMS HOUSES

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1316900
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: CAMS HOUSE AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: CAMS HOUSE AND RAILINGS, CAMS HOUSES

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Date:: 2003-04-26
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1316900
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: CAMS HOUSE AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: CAMS HOUSE AND RAILINGS, CAMS HOUSES

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CAMS HOUSE AND RAILINGS, CAMS HOUSES

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: High Abbotside
National Park:: YORKSHIRE DALES
National Grid Reference:: SD 91226 90471

Details

HIGH ABBOTSIDE CAMS HOUSES SD 99 SW 8/143 Cams House and railings - II House and cottage, now one, and railings. Mid-late C18. Coursed rubble, stone slate roof, wrought-iron railings. 2 storeys, 4:1 first-floor windows. House: openings have segmental relieving arches above thin slab lintels. Ground floor: 24-pane sash window; leaved part-glazed doors below overlight; 24-pane sash window; leaved part-glazed doors below overlight; 16-pane sash window. Dripmould, stepping up high above leaved doors. First floor: two 12-pane sashes; one 16-pane sash, one small casement window. Shaped kneelers, ashlar coping. End stacks. Cottage to right, projecting forward: quoins; board door and sash window with glazing bars on ground floor; dripmould; sash window with glazing bars on first floor. Stack at end right, square in plan, with circular upper section. In front of house, plain railings, with urn finials to standards and square ashlar gate piers in centre. Probably built as a 3-storey house for Samuel Lindsey, Askrigg Attorney. Hartley, M & Ingilby, J, Yorkshire Village (1979), pp 120-1.

Listing NGR: SD9122690471

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Legacy System number:: 323168
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Hartley, M, Ingilby, J, Yorkshire Village, (1979), 120-1

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.