Information Centre and Bend Or Bump
INFORMATION CENTRE AND BEND OR BUMP, MAIN STREET, LA22 0NS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120821
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Information Centre and Bend Or Bump
- Statutory Address:
- INFORMATION CENTRE AND BEND OR BUMP, MAIN STREET, LA22 0NS
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- Date:
- 2003-08-14
- Reference:
- IOE01/10993/07
- Rights:
- © Mr Gordon Furness. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120821
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Information Centre and Bend Or Bump
- Statutory Address 1:
- INFORMATION CENTRE AND BEND OR BUMP, MAIN STREET, LA22 0NS
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:
- INFORMATION CENTRE AND BEND OR BUMP, MAIN STREET, LA22 0NS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hawkshead
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 35225 98182
Details
SD 3598 SW,
12/136
HAWKSHEAD,
MAIN STREET (East side),
Information Centre and Bend or Bump
(Formerly listed as National Trust information Centre & Bend or Bump teashop [2 items])
25.03.70
GV
II
House and shop. Early C18. Roughcast with slate roof. Two storeys, four bays, the
1st bay projects under gable, the 1st floor jettied to front and right return.
Ground floor has two tripartite sashes with single glazing bars and horns; 1st bay
has small casement to front, and casement in lean-to projection to left return.
1st floor has sashed windows with glazing bars; 1st bay has sashed window with
glazing bars to left return. Entrance to house (2nd bay) has gabled slate hood
and trellis sides; 8-panel door part-glazed. Sun fire mark. Entrance to shop
to right return of 1st bay. Stacks to rear. Rear has horizontally sliding
sash. Interior has plank and muntin partition, wide-board door, centre board
recessed.
Shop illustrated by Beatrix Potter in "The Tale of the Pie and the
Patty Pan", 1905, p.29 and p.65. Property of the National Trust, the gift of
Beatrix Potter.
Listing NGR: SD3522598182
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 76842
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Potter, B, The Tale of the Pie and the Patty Pan, (1905), 29,65
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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