Mill Dam House With Barns Attached to North and South Ends
MILL DAM HOUSE WITH BARNS ATTACHED TO NORTH AND SOUTH ENDS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383972
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Mill Dam House With Barns Attached to North and South Ends
- Statutory Address:
- MILL DAM HOUSE WITH BARNS ATTACHED TO NORTH AND SOUTH ENDS
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- Reference:
- IOE01/12616/34
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383972
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Oct-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Mill Dam House With Barns Attached to North and South Ends
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILL DAM HOUSE WITH BARNS ATTACHED TO NORTH AND SOUTH ENDS
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:
- MILL DAM HOUSE WITH BARNS ATTACHED TO NORTH AND SOUTH ENDS
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 69334 87403
Details
DENT
SD6987 GAWTHROP
162-1/23/172 Mill Dam House with barns attached
14/06/84 to north and south ends
(Formerly Listed as:
GAWTHROP
Mill Dam House and barn attached to
north)
GV II
Farmhouse, with attached barns. Late C17 or early C18;
enlarged and altered. White-painted random rubble with quoins,
stone slate roof. Single-depth 2-unit plan on north-south axis
facing east with a broad rear wing, lean-to addition in the
angle with this, large barn continued to south and smaller
barn continued to north.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys (plus attic which is not expressed
externally) and 5 windows. The ground floor has a
square-headed doorway in the centre, 2 small 2-light casements
to the left (the first of these with the rubble voussoirs of a
former segmental-headed opening above it), an oblong 3-light
casement to the right and a rectangular top-hung casement
right of that. The upper floor has 5 similar top-hung
casements grouped 2 and 3. Wrought-iron gutter brackets
(continued along barn to left). Small extruded gable chimney
to right, ridge chimney at junction to left. The north gable
has a small blocked attic window. The barn continued to the
left has a wagon doorway next to the junction with the house,
with a timber lintel and board doors, and a square-headed
stable door to the left. The lower barn to the right has a
prominent lean-to in the centre and a wagon doorway
immediately to the right of that with harr-hung doors. Rear:
the gable of the wing has irregular fenestration including
rubble voussoirs of 2 former windows at ground floor and a
blocked 1-light window to left at 1st floor; and a corbelled
chimney with a short cylindrical shaft, the extruded stack
rising by 2 sideways steps from corbels offset to the right
(like that on rear wing of Gawthrop hall, qv); the lean-to has
a chimney; and the barn to the left has a segmental-headed
wagon doorway with rubble voussoirs.
INTERIOR: light partition wall on right-hand side of entrance
hall with muntin-and-rail panelled door; open-well staircase
with closed string, square newels and turned balusters.
Listing NGR: SD6933487403
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484404
- 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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