HAWKSHEAD FIELDS HOUSE AND COTTAGE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1120918
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:: HAWKSHEAD FIELDS HOUSE AND COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: HAWKSHEAD FIELDS HOUSE AND COTTAGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1120918
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:: HAWKSHEAD FIELDS HOUSE AND COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: HAWKSHEAD FIELDS HOUSE AND COTTAGE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: HAWKSHEAD FIELDS HOUSE AND COTTAGE

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 35350 96856

Details

HAWKSHEAD SD 39 NE 6/116 Hawkshead Fields 25.3.70 House and Cottage GV II

2 houses. Cl7, with late C17 or early C18 wing to rear, late C18 alterations. Roughcast stone with slate roof. 2 storeys, 4 bays, the 1st 2 bays probably later. 1st 2 bays have casement windows, 2nd 2 bays have sashed windows with glazing bars and horns. Entrance to 2nd bay is plain, that between 3rd and 4th bays has slate sides to gabled porch and part glazed 6-panel door. Cross-axial stack and gable-end stacks. Right return has slate-slab porch to entrance in rear wing with casement windows. Rear has large projecting gable-end stack with off sets and sashed windows with glazing bars and horns and slated lintels, other windows have casements. Interior has plank and muntin partition with fielded panels. 2 corbelled fireplaces, one with ovolo moulding. Some panelling with dado rail, cornice and fielded panels. Stair has turned balusters and moulded handrail. Property of the National Trust, the gift of Beatrix Potter.

Listing NGR: SD3535096856

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 76822
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.