Description

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SD 86 SW
4/2

GIGGLESWICK
Close House Cottage

GV
II

Farmhouse. Early C19 with C17 origins and late C19/early C20 alterations. Rendered, stone dressings, slate roof. Two storeys, four bays. Entrance right of centre has heightened C17 surround with decorated lintel inscribed E R F 1676 (Richard & Elizabeth Frankland).; six panel door, rectangular fanlight.

Extreme left-hand bay contains no windows. Two ground floor windows have plain surrounds, 20 pane sashes. Three upper floor windows have plain surrounds and have all been heightened; sashes to central light, 16 pane sashes to outer lights. Three dormer windows of c1900.

Front right-hand room contains C19 inglenook fireplace with moulded surround, basket arch of 19 voussoirs; beehive oven to left.

Listing NGR: SD8006763366

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26424717

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record