Description

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SK 56 SW
2/65

SKEGBY
SKEGBY LANE (north side)
Dalestorth House and adjoining service wing and garden boundary walls

6.11.75

II

House. Late C18. Brick and coursed and squared rubble, partly rendered. Plain tile, pantile, stone and slate roofs. Ashlar dressings, first and second floor bands, moulded stone and dentillated brick eaves, flat coped parapet, coped gables. Five gable and single ridge stacks. Three storeys, seven plus two bays. Central block with flanking two-storey parapeted wings. Windows are mainly glazing bar sashes, those to front with keystoned splayed lintels. South front has central doorway with keystone and fanlight, flanked by three sashes. Above, seven sashes. Above again, five smaller sashes. To right, beyond boundary wall with doorway, two-storey service wing, partly roofless, with door flanked by single flush mullioned casements. Above, two similar casements and to right, C19 sash. Beyond, to right, dressed stone coped boundary wall 15 metres long. To left, ramped coped brick boundary wall, 5 metres long.

East end has to left partly demolished gable. To right, two-storey stable, three bays, with doorway, stable door and blocked casement. Above, two blocked casements. West side has doorway to right and above, two casements. Rear elevation has to left, roof-less single storey lean-to addition. To its right, door with segmental head. To right again, two-storey lean-to addition with casement. Beyond, three storey gabled stair tower with door, and above, a sash on each floor, all with segmental heads. Above, to left, sloping dormer with a Yorkshire sash. To right again, west wing with two-bay single storey addition. To east, two sashes. To north, two casements. West gable has, above, a sash.

Outside, adjoining buttressed brick garden wall with flat slab coping, square plan, approximately 50 metres each side.

Listing NGR: SK5073060584

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26565467

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)