Farm Outbuilding East South East of High Birks Farmhouse

FARM OUTBUILDING EAST SOUTH EAST OF HIGH BIRKS FARMHOUSE, LA8 8BX

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1109680
Date first listed:
11-Feb-1994
List Entry Name:
Farm Outbuilding East South East of High Birks Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
FARM OUTBUILDING EAST SOUTH EAST OF HIGH BIRKS FARMHOUSE, LA8 8BX

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1109680
Date first listed:
11-Feb-1994
List Entry Name:
Farm Outbuilding East South East of High Birks Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
FARM OUTBUILDING EAST SOUTH EAST OF HIGH BIRKS FARMHOUSE, LA8 8BX

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
FARM OUTBUILDING EAST SOUTH EAST OF HIGH BIRKS FARMHOUSE, LA8 8BX

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

District:
Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Crosthwaite and Lyth
National Park:
Lake District
National Grid Reference:
SD 42780 90586

Details

SD 49 SW,
1258-/1/10002

CROSTHWAITE AND LYTH,
Farm outbuilding east-south-east of High Birks Farmhouse

GV

II

Farm outbuilding. Dated 1853, with minor C20 alterations. Rubble water-shot Lakeland-stone walling, with limestone quoining and dressings, and a Westmorland slate roof laid
to diminishing courses. Bank barn type of linear form with substantial rear outshots
flanking upper side entry. 2-storey with overlofts to outshots, five bays with central access on high side (north) to threshing and winnowing floor and fodder storage. South
elevation with shallow ground floor canopy extending the full length of the building,
supported on long stone canopy corbels (mostly now failing). Four single doorways and a cart entry together with a single small square window at the west end. Only the east end doorway and the window are undisturbed; the other openings having been modified to form additional windows. Central first floor winnowing doorway beneath deep lintel with inscribed date stone above which reads J.C. 1853'. Tier of slit breathers below projecting eaves supported on moulded stone corbels. East and west side elevations altered, but with stable doorways and windows beneath single massive lintels and with loft doors above. The rear outshots are entered through side doors beneath a canopy which shelters the double doorway to the winnowing floor. One of the largest of the surviving C19 bank barns in the Lake District.


Listing NGR: SD4278090586

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Legacy System number:
351993
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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