Swarth Gill
SWARTH GILL, HAWES ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384051
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Swarth Gill
- Statutory Address:
- SWARTH GILL, HAWES ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384051
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Swarth Gill
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWARTH GILL, HAWES ROAD
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:
- SWARTH GILL, HAWES ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Garsdale
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 72664 90190
Details
GARSDALE
SD79SW HAWES ROAD
162-1/7/258 (North side)
16/03/54 Swarth Gill
GV II
Farmhouse with attached cottage, now all one house. Probably
late C17, enlarged in early C18 (dated 1712 on porch and on
internal spice cupboard); raised and altered. White-washed
roughly-coursed rubble with quoins, stone slate roof. T-plan
formed by single-depth main range of 1:2 units on an east-west
axis facing south, with a rear outshut to the centre of the
2-unit portion.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys (raised from 2), 2:2 windows, with stone
slate drip-courses over the ground- and 1st-floors. The 2-unit
portion has a gabled porch in the centre (under pitched
water-tabling of a formerly more steeply pitched roof) with a
square datestone which has raised lettering "H / I I / 1712"
(= John and Isabell Haygarth), and a square-headed inner
doorway with a studded oak door; an altered and enlarged
window to the left and remains of a fire-window left of that,
and a 4-light double-chamfered stone mullion window to the
right. The 1st floor has a restored or C20 3-light window to
the left, remains of a former 2-light window left of that, and
a 4-light window to the right like that at ground floor; and
at 2nd floor 2 widely separated small square blocked windows.
The 1-unit portion to the left has a pitched stone slate
canopy over a doorway which has a sloped lintel and an old
studded oak door, an altered 3-light window to the left; a
2-light window above the porch and an altered or restored
3-light window left of that; and a blocked 2-light window to
the 2nd floor. Chimney at left gable corbelled from 1st floor,
square ridge chimney at junction, gable chimney to right. Left
gable wall has 3 courses of through-stones. Rear: small
fire-windows in line with ridge chimney at ground- and 1st
floor; full-height outshut under catslide roof, with (inter
alia) two 2-light mullioned windows in the side wall.
INTERIOR: 1-unit portion to left has large lateral beam;
2-unit portion has inserted full-height stone partition wall
immediately left of doorway, original muntin-and-rail panelled
partition to parlour on right; parlour has 2 axial beams,
internal chimney over large rectangular stone fireplace with
corbelled lintel and chamfered surround, and spice cupboard to
right with butterfly hinges and raised lettering matching that
on porch; chamber over parlour has chamfered lateral beam with
2 sets of chamfered secondary beams, and built-in spice
cupboard with butterfly hinges and carved panel with raised
lettering "IHIH / 1712" (= John and Isabell Haygarth); roof
has 2 principal rafter trusses, one with stone partition wall
immediately west of it.
HISTORICAL NOTE: home of John Haygarth (1677-1757) and his
wife Isabell.
Forms group with barn approx. 30m north-east (qv).
Listing NGR: SD7266490190
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484483
- 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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