West Cowgill Farmhouse
WEST COWGILL FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383949
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1954
- List Entry Name:
- West Cowgill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WEST COWGILL FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383949
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Oct-1999
- List Entry Name:
- West Cowgill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST COWGILL 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:
- WEST COWGILL 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 75680 87148
Details
DENT
SD78NE DENTDALE
162-1/12/152 (North side)
16/03/54 West Cowgill Farmhouse
(Formerly Listed as:
DENTDALE
(North side)
West Cowgill)
GV II
Farmhouse, now house. Dated 1705 on porch; enlarged and
altered. White-painted rubble with quoins, slate roof. Long
single-depth 2-unit plan, plus rear wing to right-hand end,
full-height outshut added in rear angle at an early date, and
a further outshut added to the rear of this.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and 2 widely-spaced windows. In the centre
is a wide gabled porch which has an outer doorway with a
shaped lintel on which is worn raised lettering "HD 1705"
(picked out in black paint); at ground floor close to the left
of this porch is a small formerly 2-light mullioned window
lacking the mullion, and above the left side of the porch roof
are traces of a formerly similar window; otherwise, the front
has two late C19 mullioned windows on each floor (3 lights at
ground floor and 2 lights above) all with square-cut surrounds
and flat-faced flush mullions, those to the left vertically
aligned near the corner and that to the right at ground floor
offset slightly to the right. Gable chimneys. The rear outshut
has an old blocked 2-light mullioned window, and the west wall
of the rear wing has a similar window at 1st floor.
INTERIOR: entrance passage made by C19 inserted partition on
right and original partition on left incorporating a large
built-in cupboard; 3 large chamfered beams in housepart to
right (the front end of that in the centre now suspended over
the C19 window by a large iron strap); 2 similar beams in the
room to the left (one similarly suspended).
Listing NGR: SD7568087148
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484381
- 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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