Howgill House
HOWGILL HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383896
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Howgill House
- Statutory Address:
- HOWGILL HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383896
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Oct-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Howgill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOWGILL 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:
- HOWGILL 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 71479 86298
Details
DENT
SD78NW DENTDALE
162-1/11/97 (South side)
14/06/84 Howgill House
(Formerly Listed as:
DENTDALE
Howgill House and attached barn to
north)
GV II
Farmhouse, now house, with attached outbuilding at west end.
Mostly mid C19 but incorporating part of a late C17 or early
C18 house as a rear wing. Roughly coursed sandstone rubble
with quoins, the front painted white, slate roof to main
range, stone slate to outbuilding. Irregular plan formed by a
C19 double-depth double-fronted main range on an east-west
axis facing south, with a continuous full-height rear outshut
which overlaps the east end and incorporates the earlier
fabric; and an outbuilding attached at the west end.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and 3 windows, almost symmetrical, with a
C19 glazed porch in the centre flanked by square 4-pane
sashes, and 3 similar sashes above (all these openings
collectively offset slightly left). Gable chimneys. Tall 1-bay
outbuilding continued to left. The right-hand (east) gable
wall has 2 sashes at ground floor and a re-located or ex situ
stepped 3-light mullioned window at 1st floor, with a
hoodmould. The projecting monopitched end of the rear outshut
has a lean-to at ground floor and a large corbelled chimney.
The rear of this outshut has a plain doorway offset left, a
small fire-window and a 9-pane fixed window to the left and a
12-pane sash above, and a tall 12-pane stair-window to the
right.
INTERIOR: 2 chamfered beams in room with corbelled chimney.
Forms group with barn approx. 20m north (qv).
Listing NGR: SD7147986298
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484328
- 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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