Gawthrop Hall

GAWTHROP HALL

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1383964
Date first listed:
16-Mar-1954
List Entry Name:
Gawthrop Hall
Statutory Address:
GAWTHROP HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1383964
Date first listed:
16-Mar-1954
Date of most recent amendment:
18-Oct-1999
List Entry Name:
Gawthrop Hall
Statutory Address 1:
GAWTHROP HALL

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GAWTHROP HALL

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 69348 87284

Details

DENT

SD6987 GAWTHROP
162-1/23/164 Gawthrop Hall
16/03/54
(Formerly Listed as:
GAWTHROP
Gawthrop Hall and adjoining barn to
south-west)

GV II

Farmhouse and cottage. Probably late C17 or early C18;
extended in C18 and altered, with a C20 extension to the rear.
Mixed random rubble, the front painted white; stone slate
roof. T-plan formed by single-depth 2-unit main range, on
east-west axis facing north, with rear wing to 2nd unit and
cottage added at west end.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 4+2 windows. The 4-window main range has
a gabled porch offset slightly right, chamfered flush mullion
windows of 2 and 2 lights to the left, 3 and 2 lights to the
right, all with remains of stone slate hoodmoulds, and four
2-light windows above (grouped 2 and 2). Large square chimney
at junction to right (former gable), later or rebuilt gable
chimney to left. The cottage to the right has a large gabled
porch in the centre, with 2 tiers of pigeon holes over the
doorway and a peephole in the left side, a 2-light mullioned
window to the left, a similar but wider window to the right,
and 2-light mullioned widows above; all these with squared
surrounds and roughly squared flush mullions. Rear: gable of
wing has a round-headed 1-light stair-window offset right, and
an unusual corbelled chimney (corbelled base offset left at
1st floor and the shaft stepped diagonally to the square cap
at the apex).
INTERIOR: partitioning altered so that former housepart of
main range is internally integrated with cottage; large elm
beams in both these rooms.




Listing NGR: SD6934887284

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
484396
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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