Birkhill Farmhouse and attached farmbuildings to South
Birkhill Farmhouse and attached farmbuildings to South
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1049105
- Date first listed:
- 10-Dec-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Birkhill Farmhouse and attached farmbuildings to South
- Statutory Address:
- Birkhill Farmhouse and attached farmbuildings to South
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1049105
- Date first listed:
- 10-Dec-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Birkhill Farmhouse and attached farmbuildings to South
- Statutory Address 1:
- Birkhill Farmhouse and attached farmbuildings to South
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Birkhill Farmhouse and attached farmbuildings to South
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wetheral
- National Grid Reference:
- NY4778754008
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19 October 2021 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards
NY 45 SE
9/200
WETHERAL
GREAT CORBY
Birkhill Farmhouse and attached farmbuildings to South
II
Farmhouse with associated farmbuildings grouped around 3 sides of a farmyard. Mid C18 and later. House mainly of brick in English garden wall bond with sandstone dressings; Welsh slate roof. Farmbuildings brick with some coursed sandstone rubble; green slate and corrugated asbestos roofs.
House: two-unit, central entrance hall plan with stairs to rear (renewed but original position), with lower services (now kitchen) to right. Two storeys.
Front: symmetrical five-window range; chamfered quoining and plain cornice. All windows in plain surrounds (cornices to ground) and (except for two renewed casements) with eight-pane sashes. Central doorway with cyma surround and pulvinated frieze; half-panelled/half-glazed door. A sandstone, slated lean-to at extreme right. Lower services, sandstone, no windows. End stacks, that to left original, with stone coping to left only.
Rear: sixteen-pane sash window to kitchen (upper void not lit); main range with two first floor windows (one with sash) and a small window lighting stairs. Above the doorway (which has a rectangular overlight) is a small plaque in chamfered surround bearing the letters 'P.H.H' (Howard) with a relief lion.
Interior: flag floor to kitchen; first floor fireplace surround with curved angles. One panelled door; some original floorboards. Stable range attached to south with side purlin roof, slit ventilators, original openings and C20 garage doorway. South range includes threshing barn (with slit ventilators, originally attached, heightened in C19) with granary attached. A-frame roof with collars and staggered purlins.
Listing NGR: NY4778754008
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 77787
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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