Description

HARTOFT HARTOFT BECK
NORTH YORKSHIRE
RYEDALE
5340
SE 79 NE
(east side)
5/33 Birch House Farmhouse and
attached Stable
II
-
Farmhouse and attached stable. 1671, dated on kneeler, for Tom Page.
Rebuilt in 1804, incorporating remains of earlier house, for John Harland;
later C19 alteration. Herringbone-tooled sandstone to front and left
return, on earlier footings; coursed rubble stone to right return and rear;
pantile roof. 3-cell, hearth-passage plan with outshut to high end.
2-storey, 2-window high end, with lower 2-storey, 2-window low end to left.
Board door to low end, with 2-light, large-pane horizontal-sliding sash to
left: 2-light, 12-pane horizontal-sliding sash above. Roughly herringbone-
tooled lintels to these openings. Further to left is a stable door with a
plank shuttered pitching window to left. Openings to high end are 6-pane
sashes in plain raised surrounds with vertically-tooled sills. Coped gables
and shaped kneelers. End stacks to high end, and centre stack to low end.
Left return: kneeler to front of building incorporates an earlier datestone
and records the C19 rebuilding. Inscription reads:
P
I H IR1671TP
1804
Rear: single-storey outshut with catslide roof to high end. Plank door to
cross passage in low end. Interior: in the room to left of the door an
early Cl9 stone fireplace with a corbelled mantel shelf survives, complete
with crane and reckon. House for sale at time of resurvey. The sales
particulars indicate that the interior is unmodernised.

Listing NGR: SE7572595453

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26602063

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)