Hill the Old House at the Hill

HILL, JOSS LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1382830
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:
Hill the Old House at the Hill
Statutory Address:
HILL, JOSS LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1382830
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1984
Date of most recent amendment:
18-Oct-1999
List Entry Name:
Hill the Old House at the Hill
Statutory Address 1:
HILL, JOSS LANE
Statutory Address 2:
THE OLD HOUSE AT THE HILL, JOSS LANE

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

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:
HILL, JOSS LANE
Statutory Address:
THE OLD HOUSE AT THE HILL, JOSS LANE

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

District:
Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Sedbergh
National Park:
Yorkshire Dales
National Grid Reference:
SD 66099 92446

Details

SEDBERGH

SD6692 JOSS LANE
162-1/17/314 (East side)
14/06/84 The Old House at the Hill
(Formerly Listed as: c JOSS LANE
Hill)

GV II

Small cruck-framed farmhouse, now house. Probably C16, walls recently partly re-built; restored and extended.
Roughly-coursed mixed rubble, steeply-pitched slate roof.
Three-bay plan on east-west axis.
EXTERIOR: now. 1.5 storeys. The south front has a doorway towards the right-hand end, a rectangular wlndow to the right and 3 windows to the left (that in the centre with a plain stone mullion). Roof very steeply pitched to this side. Gable chimney to left. Two small attic windows in left gable.
Recent single-storey extension attached at this end). Rear, 2-storeyed, with stone slate band, recent gabled porch at -right-hand end, very small square breather opening above this,
stair-window in centre {interrupting the slate band) one small square window at ground floor. to left and 2 small inserted windows at lst floor.
INTERIOR: 2 full cruck trusses of large scantling, that at the west (upper) end with tie-beam which has arched undercutting for a former doorway at its north end, the other now lacking a tie-beam, but both with collars and vacant housings and mortices of former purlins with down-braces. Between the 2 trusses is an chamfered lateral beam with stops at both ends, and at the west gable wall a good mid-C18 stone fireplace with corbelled lintel and moulded cornice.





Listing NGR: SD6609992446

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
483216
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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