Temon and Adjoining Outbuilding
TEMON AND ADJOINING OUTBUILDING
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1087520
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Temon and Adjoining Outbuilding
- Statutory Address:
- TEMON AND ADJOINING OUTBUILDING
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1087520
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-1957
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Temon and Adjoining Outbuilding
- Statutory Address 1:
- TEMON AND ADJOINING OUTBUILDING
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:
- TEMON AND ADJOINING OUTBUILDING
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Upper Denton
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 61699 63825
Details
NY 61700 63840 UPPER DENTON NY 66 SW
3/92 Temon and adjoining outbuilding 1.4.57 (formerly listed as Temon together with remains of Pele Tower)
II*
Farmhouse and adjoining outbuilding. Outbuilding is late C16 bastle house; farmhouse is late Cl7, alterations dated 1730 over entrance and weathered inscription JAMES .....; double span to rear and late C18 face to Military Road. Bastle house has thick walls of large squared and coursed calciferous sandstone (probably partly from the Roman Wall) with red sandstone dressings; corrugated asbestos roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Ground floor plank door and window have plain C19 surrounds. Round arched cart passage to right, is probably C18. Upper floor loft entrance is C19; 3 original windows with chamfered surrounds (iron grille mentioned in RCHM, recently removed). Rear wall has filled later entrance to ground floor; 2 original windows above have chamfered surrounds and 3rd later window over archway left has iron bars. Stone water spout to left of central window and probable gun loop to right. Interior has upper floor fireplace. Adjoining house right, is of dressed calciferous sandstone on chamfered plinth with ashlar quoins, shaped cornice; Welsh slate roof, stone end chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 4 bays, with filled windows to left bay. Plank door has moulded architrave, with false keystone, frieze and segmental pediment. C20 casement windows in enlarged original plain surrounds, square on ground floor and elongated above. Face to road has rendered walls, painted raised stone quoins; Welsh slate roof, with coped gables and kneelers, yellow brick chimney stacks on stone bases. 2 storeys, 4 bays. C20 door, with pilastered surround, has prostyle Ionic porch with moulded entablature and triangular pediment. 2-pane sash windows have moulded stone architraves. See RCHM, Shielings & Bastles, 1970, p79. Other outbuildings are excluded from listing.
Listing NGR: NY6169963825
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 78083
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ramm, H G, Shielings and Bastles, (1970), 79
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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