Mill House

MILL HOUSE, B5278

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1087176
Date first listed:
15-Feb-1989
List Entry Name:
Mill House
Statutory Address:
MILL HOUSE, B5278

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1087176
Date first listed:
15-Feb-1989
List Entry Name:
Mill House
Statutory Address 1:
MILL HOUSE, B5278

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
MILL HOUSE, B5278

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Lower Holker
National Grid Reference:
SD 36284 76584

Details

LOWER HOLKER B5278 SD 3676 (West side) Cark-in-Cartmel 9/117 Mill House II House. c1782. Roughcast stone with slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays with 3-bay single-storey wing to right. Windows are sashed with glazing bars, but that to 1st bay of ground floor has casement in reduced opening. Central entrance has Tuscan columns with fluted capitals, frieze with rosettes and pulvinated panel, and pediment. Wing to right has 2 windows with C19 small-paned fixed glazing, one with opening light with cornice, and one window with small-paned fixed glazing. Gable-end stacks and cross-axial stack. Rear of 3 storeys due to slope of ground, varied fenestration and 2 entrances. The house was built for the owner of Cark Cotton Mill, built c1782, and is the only surviving building of the mill complex.

Listing NGR: SD3628476584

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
77031
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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