Tofts Farmhouse
TOFTS FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383946
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Tofts Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- TOFTS FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383946
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Tofts Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOFTS FARMHOUSE
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:
- TOFTS FARMHOUSE
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 68225 87889
Details
DENT
SD68NE DENTDALE
162-1/10/149 (South side)
14/06/84 Tofts Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse, now unoccupied. Probably late C17 or early C18,
extended in later C18; altered. Mixed random rubble with
quoins, the front and west gable lime-washed; stone slate
roof. Linear single-depth plan on east-west axis, 2+1 units.
EXTERIOR: 2 low storeys, 4 windows (irregular), facing south.
The earlier 2-unit portion has a very prominent gabled porch
of one tall storey, offset left of centre, which has an
unusual 2-centred arched doorway with a chamfered surround
(probably ex situ) and a board door, a stone-slate band, above
this a round-headed blind window with roundels in the
spandrels (typical of fire-windows in Dentdale, and probably
ex situ), and a shallow-pitched roof with remains of an apex
finial. Left and right of the porch are remains of a stone
slate band. To the left the ground floor has a narrow 6-pane
fixed window and a square 6-pane sash above; to the right the
ground floor has a low 2-light casement with massive lintel
and right of this a square window (now boarded), and the 1st
floor has a rectangular 6-pane fixed window with one opening
pane and a narrow 1-light window. At the junction with the
added 3rd bay to the right is a small gabled porch with glazed
door, and to the right of this each floor has a large 3-light
window with flat-faced flush mullions and plain surround, the
lower with a stone-slate drip-course and the upper with one
blocked light. Large square ridge chimney at junction, smaller
square chimney at left gable (both these with stone slate
bands), cut-down rectangular chimney at right-hand gable. Left
gable and rear have prominent through-stones on 2 levels; rear
has rectangular 6-pane stair-window near centre of 2-unit
portion, small 1-light windows on each floor to left and small
square window at ground floor to right; 3rd unit has 4-pane
sash on each floor.
INTERIOR: not accessible, but 2 lateral beams and large C18
stone fireplace visible in housepart (to right of main
doorway).
Listing NGR: SD6822587889
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484378
- 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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