Howsham Barff Farmhouse

HOWSHAM BARFF FARMHOUSE, B1434

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1346517
Date first listed:
06-Nov-1967
List Entry Name:
Howsham Barff Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
HOWSHAM BARFF FARMHOUSE, B1434

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1346517
Date first listed:
06-Nov-1967
List Entry Name:
Howsham Barff Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
HOWSHAM BARFF FARMHOUSE, B1434

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HOWSHAM BARFF FARMHOUSE, B1434

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

District:
North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Cadney
National Grid Reference:
TA 03043 05929

Details

TA 00 NW CADNEY B 1434 (west side, off)

7/42 Howsham Barff Farmhouse 6.11.67 II

Farmhouse. c1800 for Yarborough Estate, with early C20 alterations and renovations of 1985-6. Yellow brick in Flemish bond, rendered to rear wing. Slate roof. Ashlar staircase to entrance. L-shaped on plan: 2-room central entrance-hall west front with single-room wing to rear right and outshut in angle. 3 storeys, 3 bays; symmetrical. Chamfered plinth with single course of black bricks above. Flight of 3 stone steps to entrance has balustrade with vase balusters and moulded string and rail, terminating in square panelled piers with corniced caps and carved fruit-bowl finials. Doric doorcase with attached columns carrying entablature with roundels in the frieze, modillioned cornice and pediment, C20 half-glazed panelled door and fanlight in round-arched reveal with pilastered surround, cornice and archivolt. C20 flat-roofed ground-floor bay windows to each side, that to left with central glazed door. First floor: central flat-roofed canted oriel window on brackets, with leaded lights beneath egg-and-dart cornice; 3-light casements to side bays in original openings with stucco keyed flat arches. Second floor: central Diocletian window beneath stucco keyed arch, flanked by low 3-light windows beneath stucco keyed arches. All windows C20 casements, some with leaded lights. Stepped and dentilled brick eaves cornice. Stone-coped gables with shaped kneelers. End stacks. Interior. Original details include: fine open-well staircase with ramped and wreathed mahogany handrail, plain balusters and column newel posts; fireplaces with ornamented cast-iron ducks-nest grates in stone surrounds: fluted wooden chimneypiece to ground floor right, pilastered chimneypiece to first floor left with carved brackets supporting fluted cornice mantelpiece; moulded plaster cornices to main ground and first-floor rooms; fielded-panel window shutters and doors in architraves; beaded-panelled reveal to original first- floor central Venetian window.

Listing NGR: TA0304305929

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
166002
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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