Sportsmans Inn
SPORTSMANS INN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383940
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Sportsmans Inn
- Statutory Address:
- SPORTSMANS INN
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- Date:
- 2004-07-18
- Reference:
- IOE01/12616/11
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383940
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Sportsmans Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPORTSMANS INN
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:
- SPORTSMANS INN
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 76814 86322
Details
DENT
SD78NE DENTDALE
162-1/12/143 (South side)
14/06/84 Sportsman's Inn
GV II
Farmhouse, now public house. Probably late C17 and late C18;
altered. White-painted rubble with quoins, stone slate roof.
Single-depth linear plan on roughly north-south axis, the
earlier portion forming the southern third, plus a large rear
outshut covering part of the earlier portion and all of the
later.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 2:4 windows, the earlier portion to the
left breaking forwards slightly. The later and larger portion
to the right has a square-headed doorway offset left (up 4
re-built steps) with a shallow 5-pane overlight and a narrow
8-pane hornless sashed to its right, and these openings are
flanked by 16-pane hornless sashes; and the 1st floor has 4
similar sashes. The 2-window earlier portion to the left has a
boulder plinth, one similar sashed window offset left at
ground floor and 2 at 1st floor. At each end of the 1st floor
is a metal sign-bracket, that to the right with a painted inn
sign. Ridge chimney and gable chimneys. The south gable wall
(i.e. of the earlier portion), with some through-stones, has a
chimney projection at ground floor only, and a blocked
chamfered 1-light window on each floor near the front corner,
with hoodmoulds. Rear: earlier portion has a blocked 1-light
window on each floor, that at ground floor round-headed with
hollow spandrels, and left of these a former 2-light window on
each floor, lacking mullions.
INTERIOR: altered. Picturesque site overlooking River Dee.
Listing NGR: SD7681486322
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484372
- 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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