VIRGINIA HOUSE AND ADJOINING BYRE/BARN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1225809
Date first listed:: 06-Feb-1968
List Entry Name:: VIRGINIA HOUSE AND ADJOINING BYRE/BARN
Statutory Address:: VIRGINIA HOUSE AND ADJOINING BYRE/BARN

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Date:: 2003-02-24
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1225809
Date first listed:: 06-Feb-1968
List Entry Name:: VIRGINIA HOUSE AND ADJOINING BYRE/BARN
Statutory Address 1:: VIRGINIA HOUSE AND ADJOINING BYRE/BARN

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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Location

Statutory Address:: VIRGINIA HOUSE AND ADJOINING BYRE/BARN

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

District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: King's Meaburn
National Grid Reference:: NY 62174 20974

Details

NY 62 SW KING'S MEABURN

5/70 Virginia House and adjoining byre/barn 6.2.68 II

House, late C17 with later additions and alterations. Coursed, squared sandstone blocks. Graduated slate roof with copings and kneelers; stone end chimneys. 2-storey, 3-bay front has C19 gabled wooden porch with decorated barge-boards and finial. C19 three-light mullioned window to left of door, original 4-light mullioned window to right; single C19 sash and 2 small Yorkshire sashes to 1st floor, all with glazing bars. Internally, ground floor north has bracketed fireplace with beef-box at 1st floor level; cross-passage entrance now a cupboard, but stone heck with wooden seat survives. C17 bed-cupboard survives, with small turned balusters to ventilation holes. Ground floor south has late C18/early C19 panelling, including access doors to bed cupboard and cupboards to either side of fireplace. C17 and C18 panelled doors survive throughout. Late C19 extension of slobbered rubble to rear. Barn of coursed, squared rubble under corrugated asbestos roof adjoins to north. Rainwater-head at junction with house is dated 1815. Openings to front have been altered in C20; ramp entrance to rear. Roof has been raised.

Listing NGR: NY6217420974

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Legacy System number:: 422787
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.