Temple Farmhouse
TEMPLE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318583
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Temple Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- TEMPLE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318583
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Temple Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- TEMPLE 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:
- TEMPLE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West Witton
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 03370 88975
Details
SE 08 NW WEST WITTON TEMPLE
8/131 Temple Farmhouse 13/2/67
GV II
Farmhouse, divided into 2. Late C18, possibly older. Rubble, partly rendered, stone slate roof. Irregular plan. 2 storeys. South front: rendered. 3 bays, plus projecting cross-wing of 1 bay to left. Central 6- panel door in ashlar eared architrave with splayed bases, pulvinated frieze and modillioned pediment. 4-pane windows in stone surrounds. Hipped roof to cross-wing. Stacks at ends and between bays 1 and 2 of main range. Rear elevation to left of rear cross-wing: rubble; 6-panel door in deeply- chamfered surround; segmental-arched cellar-hole; very tall landing window with imposts and keystone. To right of rear cross-wing: rubble; on ground floor, 4-pane sash window in ashlar architrave; on first-floor, casement window in ashlar architrave. Left return of rear cross-wing: on ground floor, 2-light double-chamfered mullion window; on first-floor, 4-pane sash window in architrave. External stack, with corniced stack, to end right. Right return of rear cross-wing: 6-panel door and above, tall window, both in same ashlar architrave. At east end, an early C20 lean-to extension having over doorway on ex-situ plaque with worn inscription recorded as "WHOSO THAT COME TO THIS HOUS O LORD DO THEM PROTECT AND WHO DOTH PAS FORTH OF THE SAME JESU THERE WAYE DERECT" with the initials of Peter Atkinson and his wife and the date 1608. Interior: in kitchen, late C18-early C19 tripartite fireplace. VCH i, pp. 286-287; H. Speight Romantic Richmondshire (1897), p. 425; M. Hartley and J. Ingilby, The Yorkshire Dales (1974), p. 214.
Listing NGR: SE0337088975
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321877
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hartley, M, Ingilby, J, The Yorkshire Dales, (1974), 214
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1914), 286-287
Speight, H, Romantic Richmondshire, (1897), 425
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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