Mill Cottage
MILL COTTAGE, HOWGILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384154
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Mill Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- MILL COTTAGE, HOWGILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384154
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Mill Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILL COTTAGE, HOWGILL LANE
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 COTTAGE, HOWGILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sedbergh
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD6321494923
Details
SEDBERGH
SD69SW
162-1/5/365
HOWGILL LANE, Howgill
(West side (off))
Mill Cottage
GV
II
Cottage. Probably early C18; extended and altered. Coursed
mixed rubble with sandstone quoins, stone-coloured composition
tile roof. Single-depth 2-unit plan plus a set-back extension
at the left end (formerly lean-to but recently raised).
EXTERIOR: 2 low storeys, 1:2 windows. The 2-window main range,
with a continuous stone-slate drip-course over the ground
floor, has a doorway offset right, with a flat-arched head of
rubble voussoirs (now covered by porch), a pegged wooden
doorcase and studded plank door with strap hinges, and
protected by an added shallow gabled porch with stone slab
roof; a square casement window to the left with thin glazing
bars and a rectangular window to the right with altered
glazing, both these windows with flat-arched heads like the
doorway; and at 1st floor a rectangular 9-pane window to the
left with one opening pane in the top row, and an oblong
casement window to the right with a similar opening pane in
the top row. Gable chimney to left. Former lean-to at left end
now has upper floor with window. Right-hand end adjoins gable
wall of Mill House (qv).
INTERIOR: large ceiling beam, and panelled partition forming
very narrow room at right-hand end.
Forms group with Mill House (qv) adjoining to the right, and
with Millers Cottage (qv) to the right of that.
Listing NGR: SD6321494923
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484586
- 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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