Backstone Gill Cottage
BACKSTONE GILL COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383818
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Backstone Gill Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BACKSTONE GILL COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383818
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Oct-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Backstone Gill Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BACKSTONE GILL COTTAGE
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:
- BACKSTONE GILL COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dent
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 71618 87142
Details
DENT
SD78NW DENTDALE
162-1/11/16 (North side)
14/06/84 Backstone Gill Cottage
(Formerly Listed as:
DENTDALE
Backstone Gill Cottage and Barn)
GV II
Small farmhouse, now house. Probably early C18; slightly
enlarged, and altered. Cream-painted random rubble with large
quoins, green slate roof (stone slate to outshut).
Single-depth 2-unit plan plus a lean-to porch-cum-outhouse
added to the centre and right-hand half of the front.
2 storeys and 2 windows. The lean-to porch, covering a doorway
offset right of centre, has a doorway in its left side and a
small square 4-pane fixed window in the front wall. Left of
the porch the ground floor has a small square 2-light casement
and a 1-light fire-window to the left of that (both with
renewed joinery). The 1st floor has 2 widely-separated small
square 2-light casements. The left gable has a large square
corbelled chimney. Rear has through-stones, and a small window
at 1st floor. Right-hand gable wall has 2 courses of prominent
through-stones, a small rubble lean-to outbuilding at ground
floor and a small window to the left.
INTERIOR: 2 large lateral beams in housepart to left;
staircase mounting from rear left corner.
Listing NGR: SD7161887142
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484250
- 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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