Combe House
COMBE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383836
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Combe House
- Statutory Address:
- COMBE HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383836
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Combe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- COMBE HOUSE
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:
- COMBE HOUSE
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 68147 87555
Details
DENT
SD68NE DENTDALE
162-1/10/35 (South side)
11/08/78 Combe House
GV II
Farmhouse, now derelict and ruinous. Probably early to mid
C18; altered. Roughly-coursed blue ragstone rubble with some
sandstone, sandstone quoins and gritstone dressings, stone
slate roof (partly collapsed). Shallow double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, formerly 2 windows and formerly almost
symmetrical but most of left half of front wall now collapsed.
Ground floor has gabled porch (now roofless) with
square-headed doorway, stone-slate drip-course and above this
the lower 2 tiers of a formerly 3-tier triangular pattern of
pigeon holes; the wall to the left has mostly collapsed
(revealing former mullions re-used as through-stones); to the
right each floor has a relatively small rectangular window
(formerly sashed but now lacking joinery). The left gable wall
(partly collapsed) has 2 small chamfered 1-light windows near
the corners of the ground floor, prominent through-stones, one
remaining chimney-corbel and to the rear of this an attic
window like those at ground floor. The rear has a complete set
of mullioned windows with chamfered flush-mullions: 3, 2 and 2
lights at ground floor (the 1st and 2nd each with one blocked
light); a 2-light stair-window in the centre (lacking the
mullion) and 3 widely-separated 2-light windows at 1st floor
(that to the left lacking the mullion).
INTERIOR: former housepart to left, parlour to right, shallow
service rooms to rear and former staircase between these;
surviving right-hand portion of roof has C19 or C20 trusses,
but collapsed portion had original C18 trusses; otherwise, no
surviving features of interest. Forms group with barn approx.
50m south (qv).
Listing NGR: SD6814787555
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484268
- 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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