Hard Cragg House

HARD CRAGG HOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1087220
Date first listed:
15-Feb-1989
List Entry Name:
Hard Cragg House
Statutory Address:
HARD CRAGG HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1087220
Date first listed:
15-Feb-1989
List Entry Name:
Hard Cragg House
Statutory Address 1:
HARD CRAGG HOUSE

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HARD CRAGG HOUSE

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 37250 79694

Details

LOWER ALLITHWAITE SD 37 NE 5/19 Hard Cragg House II House. Probably mid C18, with later alterations. Roughcast stone with slate roof. 2 storeys, 7 bays, the end 2 bays recessed and lower. Windows are sashed with horns. Ground floor has paired sashes to 1st 2 bays, bay window with tripartite sash, quoins, and hipped roof to 4th and 5th bays; 1st floor 1st to 5th bays have small windows; 6th and 7th bays have sashes with single glazing bars. Entrance has flat bracketed canopy. Entrance to 6th bay. 3 gable-end stacks. Rear similar, with gabled wing. Left return has entrance and plaque dated 1857 with verse and name: William Field. Interior has ovolo beam, bee-hive bread oven and stair with fluted newels, turned balusters and moulded handrail. The home of W. Field, an important figure in the development of local administration in C19 Cartmel; known as the Father of Cartmel.

Listing NGR: SD3725079694

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Legacy System number:
76930
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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