Dee Side House Youth Hostel

DEE SIDE HOUSE YOUTH HOSTEL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1383846
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:
Dee Side House Youth Hostel
Statutory Address:
DEE SIDE HOUSE YOUTH HOSTEL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1383846
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1984
Date of most recent amendment:
18-Oct-1999
List Entry Name:
Dee Side House Youth Hostel
Statutory Address 1:
DEE SIDE HOUSE YOUTH HOSTEL

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
DEE SIDE HOUSE YOUTH HOSTEL

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 77396 85102

Details

DENT

SD78NE DENTDALE
162-1/12/45 (South side)
14/06/84 Dee Side House Youth Hostel
(Formerly Listed as:
Dee Side House Youth Hostel and
Summer House to south-west)

GV II

Shooting lodge, now youth hostel. Early C19, built by John
Elam and used by Bentinck family as shooting lodge; altered.
Coursed sandstone rubble, part rendered and all painted white,
graduated slate roof with crested riggings. Irregular plan
formed by single-depth main range on roughly east-west axis
with projecting cross-wing at east end and a further east-west
range at the north end of this, extending westwards. Cottage
ornee style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, the south front 2:1 windows. The 2-window
main range has a doorway to the right, with pilastered
architrave and recessed panelled and part-glazed door with
margin panes, an added or altered wooden canted bay window to
the left. Above these, Gothic-style casement windows of 3 and
2 lights with Tudor-arched lights, patterned leaded glazing
and hoodmould lintels; to the right the gable of the projected
wing (which is rendered) has a similar bay window at ground
floor and a similar 3-light casement above. Oversailing
barge-boarded eaves; gable chimney to main range, 2 ridge
chimneys to right-hand wing. Two-window right-hand return wall
in matching style; and one similar window at 1st floor of
gable of further wing. Rear and INTERIOR: not inspected.



Listing NGR: SD7739685102

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
484278
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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