Holme Ground Cottage, Barn, and Stable

HOLME GROUND COTTAGE, BARN, AND STABLE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1087202
Date first listed:
22-Sept-1987
List Entry Name:
Holme Ground Cottage, Barn, and Stable
Statutory Address:
HOLME GROUND COTTAGE, BARN, AND STABLE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1087202
Date first listed:
22-Sept-1987
List Entry Name:
Holme Ground Cottage, Barn, and Stable
Statutory Address 1:
HOLME GROUND COTTAGE, BARN, AND STABLE

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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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

Location

Statutory Address:
HOLME GROUND COTTAGE, BARN, AND STABLE

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

County:
Cumbria
District:
South Lakeland (District Authority)
Parish:
Skelwith
National Park:
Lake District
National Grid Reference:
NY 31139 01191

Details

SKELWITH NY 30 SW Holme Ground Cottage, 2/185 barn, and stable

II

House, bank barn and stable. Early C18 and later. Painted stone rubble, outhouses not painted, slate roofs. House of 2 storeys and 2 bays, stable to left and barn with cowhouse below adjoins at right angles to right. House has casement windows and central entrance with slate gabled canopy. Stable has entrance with flanking windows under slate dripcourse. Right hand end has small re-entrant block to angle between house and barn, with wide-boarded door. Cow house has 2 entrances flanking window, formerly entrance; pentice over, and blocked winnowing door to upper level. Right return of stable has crow-stepped gable and slate dripcourse; later lean-to extension. Rear of stable has garage door at upper level, and lean-to extension. Rear of house has varied fenestration. Barn has rear entrance with pentice and pivoted wide-boarded doors. Interior of cow house has slate partitions in timber frames. Property, of the National Trust, the gift of Beatrix Potter.

Listing NGR: NY3113901191

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
76885
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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