Wordsworth House
WORDSWORTH HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1081494
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Wordsworth House
- Statutory Address:
- WORDSWORTH HOUSE
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- Date:
- 2003-10-21
- Reference:
- IOE01/11429/02
- Rights:
- © Mr Gordon Furness. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1081494
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Wordsworth House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WORDSWORTH HOUSE
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:
- WORDSWORTH HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sockbridge and Tirril
- National Grid Reference:
- NY5000026886
Details
SOCKBRIDGE AND TIRRIL SOCKBRIDGE
NY 5026
15/194
6.2.88
Wordsworth House
GV II
House. Dated and inscribed R&ED 1699 (Reginald & Elizabeth Dobson) over
entrance. Painted stucco walls with string course, eaves cornice and V-jointed
quoins, on chamfered plinth. Graduated greenslate roof with banded stucco
chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 4 bays with right-angled single-storey, 2 bay
extension. Centre top-glazed panelled door in bolection architrave.
Cross-mullioned windows in stone architraves. Extension has door and sash
window in painted stone surrounds within overall glass porch. Interior has
ground floor late C17 panelling, wall cupboards, panelled doors and beamed
ceilings. Late C17 staircase with twist balusters. See RCHM Westmorland, p214,
pl,56.
Listing NGR: NY5000026886
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 74597
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory Of Westmorland in Inventory Of Westmorland, (1936), 214
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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