Abbey Farmhouse
ABBEY FARMHOUSE, B5345
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086679
- Date first listed:
- 06-Apr-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ABBEY FARMHOUSE, B5345
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086679
- Date first listed:
- 06-Apr-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBEY FARMHOUSE, B5345
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:
- ABBEY FARMHOUSE, B5345
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cumbria
- District:
- Copeland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Bees
- National Grid Reference:
- NX 96860 12225
Details
NX 91 SE (INSET) ST BEES B5345 (West side) St Bees 8/64 Abbey Farmhouse
6.4.79
G.V. II
House. Dated 1679; later additions and alterations. Richard Caton of Lancaster was mason. Decorative, dated, door lintel on north return incorporates initials IL : B (John Lowther : Baronet - owner); RS (Richard Stainton - tenant) and TT (Thomas Tickell - estate steward). Main block, to right in farmyard elevation, incised stucco with rusticated quoins. Graduated slate roof with outshut to rear. Stone copings and kneelers; rendered mid and end chimneys. Symmetrical; 3 storeys, 3 bays, with sashes to each floor (2nd floor sashes smaller). Part-glazed door on north return has sash to left on ground and 2nd floors above above on 1st floor. All sashes with glazing bars in stone surrounds. 2-storey, 2-bay block adjoining south return is pebble-dashed rubble under graduated slate roof. Plank door, with paired sash in stone surround to each floor on right. (Information on initials provided by Blake Tyson).
Listing NGR: NX9686112228
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 76162
- 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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