Description

SE 09 SW REDMIRE REDMIRE

11/63 Lightfoot Hall and Lightfoot House

- II

House, now 2 houses. Late C16-early C17. Rubble, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows in all, T-shaped plan. To right, forehouse, formerly of hearth-passage plan, now gable entry (Lightfoot Hall). To left, parlour (now Lightfoot House). Ground floor: 2 round- headed arches with rubble voussoirs, now filled in, with C20 window and door, and C20 window, and on right a fire window with chamfered mullion oak frame. First floor: paired C20 sash windows and 2 C20 sashes with glazing bars. Shaped kneelers, ashlar copings, end stacks. Gabled rear wing with 2-light double-chamfered mullion window on ground floor; double-chamfered cross window, perhaps enlarged, below hoodmould, on first floor; traces of 2-light window in gable. Shaped kneelers, ashlar coping. Left return: large projecting chimney-breast clasped by adjoining cottage. Interior: in forehouse, large timber fire-hood with decorated plasterwork of 4 stylised flowers; oak door-frames with triangular lintels; moulded and stop-chamfered beams. Stud partition between forehouse and parlour. Linen-fold panelling removed from parlour, and stone fireplace no longer visible. NYCVBSG Report No. 619. Harrison and Hutton, Vernacular Houses in North Yorkshire and Cleveland (1984). The building is of importance in the understanding of the evolution of vernacular architecture in the Northern Pennine Dales.

Listing NGR: SE0456091164

External Links

• Wikidata Q26473872

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Recommended Books

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)