NUMBERS 1 AND 2 HOLKER COTTAGES

NUMBERS 1 AND 2 HOLKER COTTAGES, B5278

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1100294
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1 AND 2 HOLKER COTTAGES
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 1 AND 2 HOLKER COTTAGES, B5278

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1100294
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1970
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Feb-1989
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1 AND 2 HOLKER COTTAGES
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 1 AND 2 HOLKER COTTAGES, B5278

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 1 AND 2 HOLKER COTTAGES, B5278

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

District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lower Holker
National Grid Reference:: SD 36038 76923

Details

LOWER HOLKER B5278 SD 3676 (West side) Holker 9/134 Nos. 1 and 2 Holker 25.3.70 Cottages (formerly listed as Holker Cottages with Nos. 3 and 4) G.V. II P 2 houses. Lintel reads: "G A/1680" with later alterations. Roughcast stone with slate roof. 2 storeys, 4 bays. Double-chamfered-mullioned windows with plaster label moulds; ground floor has 3-light windows, 3rd bay with small casement fire window to right. 1st floor has cross-mullion windows. Entrance to 2nd bay has dated embattled lintel, 6-fielded-panel door and open timber gabled porch. 4th bay has entrance with hipped porch in re-entrant angle formed by projection of Nos. 3 and 4 (q.v.). Gable-end stack and cross-axial stack. Rear has lean-to outshut and small-paned window and pivoted casements to 1st floor. A C17 house apparently given a more picturesque appearance in the 1840s to match the rest of the village.

Listing NGR: SD3603876923

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 77048
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.