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Town End Farm

Little Asby

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1456044
Date first listed:: 14-Apr-2003
List Entry Name:: Town End Farm
Statutory Address:: Little Asby

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1456044
Date first listed:: 14-Apr-2003
List Entry Name:: Town End Farm
Statutory Address 1:: Little Asby

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: Little Asby

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Asby
National Park:: YORKSHIRE DALES
National Grid Reference:: NY6984309763

Details

Farmhouse and attached outbuilding. C17, remodelled and extended late C18, further altered late C20 . Rubble stone with some squared dressings, stone ridge chimneys and a slate roof covering, laid to diminishing courses. PLAN . Accretional development of C17 arrangement of house and attached outbuilding entered from through passage between the 2 parts of the complex. later remodelled to provide central entrance to house part.EXTERIOR: Front elevation made up of 2 bay, 2 storey house to left and attached outbuilding to right, now part- altered to extend the domestic accommodation. House part with single- storeyed porch with pitched roof to centre, enclosing central doorway with plank door. To either side of the doorway are window openings with 6 over 6 pane sash frames. Beyond the right-hand chimney which denotes the extent of the original house are 2 blocked ground floor openings and 2, late C20 windows, one a 3-light chamfer- mullioned opening, the other a single light opening, both with ashlar surrounds and 4-pane casements. Right-hand gable to outbuilding part has a single ground floor doorway and a single window to its left, and a small first floor window, possibly formerly a breather. The house gable to the left -hand end is extended by a catslide roof over a rear lean-to against the house rear wall, and itself enlarged by a single-storey wing. INTERIOR. Not inspected, but known to contain features of interest, including, in the right hand ground floor room, a jowelled hearth surround with a mantle cornice above a deep lintel and a C19 range made in nearby Crosby Garratt. To its left is an in- built cupboard with fielded 2- panel doors and drawers filling the former doorway from the C17 cross-passage, now blocked. There are exposed joists and cross beams to the ground floor and , on the at first floor landing , a blocked doorway to what is presumed to have been the earlier stair position.HISTORY: The C17 house appears to have been altered and extended by the addition of the rear offshut, and the remodelling of the front elevation, involving the blocking of the cross-passage entrance and the creation of a new doorway to the house part.

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.