Meathop Hall and Cottage
MEATHOP HALL AND COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1087133
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Meathop Hall and Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- MEATHOP HALL AND COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1087133
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Meathop Hall and Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- MEATHOP HALL AND COTTAGE
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:
- MEATHOP HALL AND COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Witherslack, Meathop and Ulpha
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 43813 80786
Details
MEATHOP AND ULPHA MEATHOP SD 48 SW 5/38 Meathop Hall and 21.11.52 cottage II
House, now 2 houses. Late C17 with later additions. Stone rubble with slate roofs. North elevation of 2 storeys with attic and 4 bays with 2-storey, 2-bay extension to each end. Decorative bargeboards. 2-light double-chamfered- mullioned windows, but 1st bay of ground floor has C19 bay window. Attic has gabled dormers to 1st 3 bays, 3-light windows, the central lights higher. Entrance has embattled lintel and studded door with planted battens and original latch. Gable-end stacks with rounded shafts. Extension to east has windows with fixed glazing and opening lights; entrance with C20 glazed porch; gable-end stack with rounded shafts. Extension to west, now cottage, has casement windows and entrance in porch. Large projecting gable-end stack has rounded shafts. Rear has outshut under catslide roof; small gabled wing to west has 2 entrances to north.
Listing NGR: SD4381380786
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 77126
- 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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