Denton Foot
DENTON FOOT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1051049
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Denton Foot
- Statutory Address:
- DENTON FOOT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1051049
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Denton Foot
- Statutory Address 1:
- DENTON FOOT
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:
- DENTON FOOT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Nether Denton
- National Grid Reference:
- NY5717062402
Details
NY 56 SE NETHER DENTON
2/76 Denton Foot
II
House, formerly fortified farmhouse (bastle). Dated 1594 on lintel and initials
C.B. (Christopher Bell), with early C19 additions and alterations. Calciferous
sandstone rubble walls over 2 metres thick, on chamfered plinth and large flush
quoins; Welsh slate roof and coped gables, C19 cream brick chimney stacks.
2-storey, 3-bay original house, with extension of 2 storeys, 2 bays to left.
Original house now has C19 2-pane sash windows with chamfered surrounds; central
upper floor window has been recut through filled entrance, with reused dated
lintel. Side wall right has filled ground floor entrance and small attic
window. Rear wall has 2 small original first floor windows with original iron
grilles. Extension left has C19 porch and similar C19 windows to house, with
rusticated surrounds. Listing excludes outbuildings. See R.C.H.M., Shielings &
castles, 1970, p77.
Listing NGR: NY5717062402
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 78067
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ramm, H G, Shielings and Bastles, (1970), 77
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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