Market Cross Cottage and Gatehouse (West Bay)
MARKET CROSS COTTAGE AND GATEHOUSE (WEST BAY), THE SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1087169
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Market Cross Cottage and Gatehouse (West Bay)
- Statutory Address:
- MARKET CROSS COTTAGE AND GATEHOUSE (WEST BAY), THE SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1087169
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Market Cross Cottage and Gatehouse (West Bay)
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARKET CROSS COTTAGE AND GATEHOUSE (WEST BAY), THE SQUARE
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:
- MARKET CROSS COTTAGE AND GATEHOUSE (WEST BAY), THE SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lower Allithwaite
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 37809 78789
Details
LOWER ALLITHWAITE THE SQUARE SD 3778 (North side) Cartmel 8/91 Market Cross cottage 25.3.70 (formerly listed as Bank Court) and Gatehouse (West bay) (formerly listed as Cartmel Priory Gatehouse Cottage) G.V. II House. Probably late C17 with mid Cl9 2nd floor. Roughcast stone with slate roof. 3 storeys, 4 bays, the 4th bay, part of Gatehouse. Top frieze and bracketed eaves with moulded gutter. Ground floor has windows with paired sashes with horns to 1st and 3rd bays; 4th bay has small-paned bow window with cornice. 1st floor has sashed windows with horns, paired sashes to 1st and 3rd bays; 4th bay has small-paned casement window. 2nd floor windows have 3-centred heads cutting into frieze; windows are sashed, that to 4th bay with vertical glazing bars. Entrance to 2nd bay has architrave and panelled reveals, and modillioned cornice, and 4-panel door. Entrance to 4th bay has bracketed flat canopy and paired 3-fielded-panel doors. Gable-end stack and cross-axial stack.
Listing NGR: SD3781378790
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 77005
- 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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