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ENTRANCE ARCH, FRONT WALL OF COURTYARD, AND DOVECOTE TO SOUTH EAST OF ACORN BANK HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1265958
Date first listed:: 11-Apr-1984
List Entry Name:: ENTRANCE ARCH, FRONT WALL OF COURTYARD, AND DOVECOTE TO SOUTH EAST OF ACORN BANK HOUSE
Statutory Address:: ENTRANCE ARCH, FRONT WALL OF COURTYARD, AND DOVECOTE TO SOUTH EAST OF ACORN BANK HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1265958
Date first listed:: 11-Apr-1984
List Entry Name:: ENTRANCE ARCH, FRONT WALL OF COURTYARD, AND DOVECOTE TO SOUTH EAST OF ACORN BANK HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: ENTRANCE ARCH, FRONT WALL OF COURTYARD, AND DOVECOTE TO SOUTH EAST OF ACORN BANK HOUSE

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:: ENTRANCE ARCH, FRONT WALL OF COURTYARD, AND DOVECOTE TO SOUTH EAST OF ACORN BANK HOUSE

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

District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Temple Sowerby
National Grid Reference:: NY 61758 28177

Details

NY 62 NW TEMPLE SOWERBY

2(INSET)/115 Entrance arch, front wall of courtyard, & dovecote to southeast of Acorn Bank house

G.V. II

Courtyard wall with central archway and attached dovecote; late Cl8/early c19. All constructed of ashlar. Archway has open pediment; semicircular arch-head is carried on rusticated piers with impost blocks. Single trompe l'oeil window on each 'floor' of walls set back to either side of arch; moulded coping. Square plan dovecote at east end is of 2 storeys with sill band and moulded eaves. Pyramidal, graduated slate roof has central wooden clock turret with corner balusters and wrought-iron weather vane. Jambs of Venetian window on south face are Tuscan columns. 2 small dovecote openings under eaves on north side.

Listing NGR: NY6174928182

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 423394
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.