Hollin Root Old House
HOLLIN ROOT OLD HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1115118
- Date first listed:
- 23-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Hollin Root Old House
- Statutory Address:
- HOLLIN ROOT OLD HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1115118
- Date first listed:
- 23-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Hollin Root Old House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLLIN ROOT OLD 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.
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:
- HOLLIN ROOT OLD HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. John's Castlerigg and Wythburn
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 30844 23894
Details
ST JOHN'S CASTLERIGG & WYTHBURN NY3O8239 Hollin Root Old House
447-//10003 II
Former dwelling house, now farm outbuilding. Late C17 or early C18 with C19 alterations and additions and some C20 refurbishment. Uncoursed rubble sandstone without dressings, single circular gable stack (a C20 addition) at the end and a Westmorland slate roof covering laid to diminishing courses. 2-cell end lobby entrance plan. S elevation; single storey, 2 bays with single doorway to w end, central 6-pane fixed light window, and to the right a single-light window in a partially, infilled wider opening. N gable with wide doorway and planked door to right beneath rough lintol. Doorway to added rear oiiihut set back from gableline. Interior; entry baffle wall to left of gable doorway carries massive cambered hearth beam defining wide endwall hearth. Inserted sawn C19 tie beams sit on interior masonry partition wall separates heated room from service 'passage' to side.
Listing NGR: NY3084423894
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 351317
- 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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