Post Office And Adjoining House

Date:
30 Aug 2002
Location:
Post Office And Adjoining House, Kirkbampton, Allerdale, Cumbria, CA5 6JB
Reference:
IOE01/07834/22
Type:
Photograph (Digital)
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Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

NY 35 NW KIRKBAMPTON Kirkbampton

7/49 Post Office and adjoining house

G.V. II

Post Office and house, formerly barn, house and byre. Late C17 or early C18 with alterations dated 1804 over entrance. Cement rendered clay walls, house walls raised in height with brick; Welsh slate roofs, brick chimney stacks.

Single-storey, 3-bay Post Office, formerly barn; 2-storey, 2-bay house with former single-storey byre to right. C20 shop door in plain painted stone surround with dated lintel, weathered inscription. 2 C20 shop windows to left.

Plank door in plain stone surround to left. Rear wall has large cart entrance and clay walls much repaired with brick. Interior has 3 pairs of upper crucks.

House was originally single-storey and parts of the clay wall remain as internal wall. 2-pane sash windows. C20 window and plank door in former byre.

Interior of byre has one pair of upper crucks. House would have been of cruck construction also before its alteration. Listed with Solway View for G.V.

Listing NGR: NY3071456493

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/2270 IOE Records taken by John Wright; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr John Wright. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project

People & Organisations

Photographer: Wright, John

Rights Holder: Wright, John

Keywords

Render, Slate, Timber, Brick, Cement, Clay, Stuart House, Georgian Monument (By Form), Domestic, Dwelling, Barn, Agriculture And Subsistence, Farm Building, Agricultural Building, Cow House, Animal Shed, Building, Unassigned, Post Office, Commercial, Communications, Postal System Structure