BARROW HOUSE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1120851
Date first listed: 03-Mar-1967
Statutory Address: BARROW HOUSE
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Location
Statutory Address: BARROW HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Cumbria
District: Allerdale (District Authority)
Parish: Borrowdale
National Park: LAKE DISTRICT
National Grid Reference: NY 26855 20013
Summary
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History
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Details
NY 22 SE ST JOHNS CASTLERIGG & WYTHBURN DERWENTWATER
12/90 Barrow House
3.3.67
II
Private house now Youth Hostel. 1787-1796 for Joseph Pocklington, with early
C19 alterations and additions. Painted stucco walls with string course, eaves
cornice and V-jointed quoins on chamfered plinth. Hipped graduated greenslate
roof with 2 dormer windows; rendered chimney stacks. Original house, probably
of 3 or 4 bays now converted with 2 two-storeyed canted-bay windows with glazing
bars in painted stone surrounds. Flanking wings have tripartite windows with
glazing bars over tripartite doorways, that to right within a C20 enclosed
glazed porch, all in painted stone surrounds. Further 2-storey canted-bay
extension to left has sash windows with glazing bars. Joseph Pocklington
1736-1817, entered in his account book "26 March 1787, Ale at laying foundation
of the House £0.5.0; 12 Jany 1797, Quitted my Island this day and arrived safe
at Barrow after a very rough voyage." He had built an island house on
Derwentwater and retired to this house, known as Barrow Cascade House, which he
built at a cost of £1,655.3.6¾d. Became an hotel in the early C20 and a Youth
Hostel in 1931. Reverted to hotel in 1950 and finally purchased by YHA in
1961. Lower extension to left is not of interest.
Listing NGR: NY2685520013
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 72175
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.
End of official listing