ROANTREE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1383934
Date first listed:: 18-Oct-1999
List Entry Name:: ROANTREE
Statutory Address:: ROANTREE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1383934
Date first listed:: 18-Oct-1999
List Entry Name:: ROANTREE
Statutory Address 1:: ROANTREE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: ROANTREE

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 69851 88966

Details

DENT

SD68NE DENTDALE 162-1/10/137 (North side) Roantree

II

Small farmhouse with attached shippon and barn, now derelict and used as animal shelter. Probably later C17 or early C18, barn added in early C19; altered. Roughly coursed large rubble with quoins (and now mostly dry-jointed); stone slate roof. Linear plan on north-west/south-east axis, facing south-west: a 1-unit house with remains of an earlier 1-bay building to the left, a 1-bay shippon attached to the right-hand gable and a 2-bay barn added to that. EXTERIOR: the house, 2 low storeys and 2 windows, has a vertical joint at the left corner (where it incorporates the gable of the earlier building to which it was added), and a quoined vertical joint to the right (where it integrates the lintel of the shippon doorway). The ground floor has a square-headed doorway offset left of centre, with a monolith lintel and remains of a screen wall or the side of a former porch to the left; a narrow 1-light window to the left of this, a small square window to the right and a narrow 1-light fire-window to the right of that. The upper floor has 2 small square windows. No chimneys visible externally, but a large corbelled chimney to the right is visible in the shippon. The earlier building to the left, one narrow bay and formerly 2 low storeys (plus a lean-to on its left), mostly collapsed, but the surviving rear wall has a narrow opening at ground floor and a square opening above. The shippon to the right has a doorway with a large monolith lintel, and contains original lateral oak boskins (slightly altered), and with the corbelled chimney of the house visible in the loft; the added barn has a doorway offset to the right, slightly reduced in width. Rear: the house has one narrow 1-light window near each end at ground floor (that to left a stair-window), and a larger window above that to the right; the shippon has a loft doorway and the barn has a square loading window. INTERIOR: the house, measuring approx. 5x4 metres internally, has 3 lateral beams: that to the left with joints of a former wooden partition, that in the centre chamfered and slightly cambered, and that to the right a former smokehood bressumer with original bearers; original floor joists (except at the left end where the ceiling has been removed); an inserted rectangular fireplace with plain stone surround; a heck to the left (rear) of this screening the bottom of a narrow quarter-turn stone staircase, and a rectangular cupboard recess to the right; white-washed plaster walls and ceiling of the former dairy in rear left corner; deeply splayed reveals to the windows (translucent glass in dairy window perhaps original?); upper floor unpartitioned and unceiled, with exposed principal-rafter truss. HISTORICAL NOTE: very similar to Blea Beck (approx. 600m to south, qv), but in a better state of preservation. An instructive survival of a type of 1-unit 2-storey farmhouse, with important implications for the history of the development of farmhouses in this dale.

Listing NGR: SD6985188966

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 484366
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.