High Melwood Farmhouse
HIGH MELWOOD FARMHOUSE, EPWORTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1346693
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- High Melwood Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGH MELWOOD FARMHOUSE, EPWORTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1346693
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- High Melwood Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGH MELWOOD FARMHOUSE, EPWORTH ROAD
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:
- HIGH MELWOOD FARMHOUSE, EPWORTH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Owston Ferry
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 79758 02315
Details
SE 70 SE OWSTON FERRY EPWORTH ROAD (south-west side, off)
11/137 High Melwood Farmhouse
15.7.87
- II
House, now farmhouse. Probably early C18, with earlier origins, for the Acklom family; later C18 - C19 alterations and additions to the west. Brick, colour-washed. Pantile roof. Original section rectangular on plan, double-depth, with 2-room, central-entrance south front; 1- or 2-room addition to left with further single-room extension beyond. South front: 2 storeys, 2 first-floor windows to original section; single-window addition and lower 2-storey extension to left. Entrance to earlier section has C19 part-glazed door beneath plain overlight, flanked by single C19 4-pane sashes with sills beneath brick flat arches. 3-course brick first- floor band. First floor: pair of similar sashes in flush wooden architraves with sills, and smaller blocked windows to centre and right. Similar sashes to left addition. Stepped and dentilled brick eaves cornice. Tall hipped roof to early section with a pair of corniced ridge stacks to left and right returns. Hipped roof and side wall stack to left addition; swept roof to lower extension. Rear of earlier section has single C19 ground-floor sash, brick first-floor band, and pair of small C19-C20 first-floor casements, perhaps in original openings. Not fully investigated. The High Melwood Hall belonging to the Stanhopes is recorded as being a "large stone building" within a moat and surrounded by a park, which was converted to a farm by the Ackloms who succeeded John Stanhope after his death in 1705. The C19 alterations were probably undertaken for the Skipwith family. An unusual survival in a prominent position. Empty and disused at time of resurvey. W B Stonehouse, The History and Topography of the Isle of Axholme, 1839, pp 256-260; W Read, History of The Isle Of Axholme, 1858, pp 317-8.
Listing NGR: SE7975802315
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 165201
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Read, W, History of the Isle of Axholme, (1858), 317-318
Stonehouse, W B, The History and Topography of the Isle of Axholme, (1839), 256-260
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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