Farm Outbuilding East of High Birks Farmhouse
FARM OUTBUILDING EAST OF HIGH BIRKS FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140144
- Date first listed:
- 11-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Farm Outbuilding East of High Birks Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- FARM OUTBUILDING EAST OF HIGH BIRKS FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140144
- Date first listed:
- 11-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Farm Outbuilding East of High Birks Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- FARM OUTBUILDING EAST OF HIGH BIRKS FARMHOUSE
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:
- FARM OUTBUILDING EAST OF HIGH BIRKS FARMHOUSE
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 42802 90578
Details
The following building shall be added:-
CROSTHWAITE AND LYTH SD 49 SW 1258-/1/10001 Farm outbuilding east of High Birks Farmhouse GV II
Farm outbuilding. Dated 1695, with C19 alterations and additions. Watershot Lakeland stone rubble walling with limestone quoins, some monolithic, and limestone dressings, coped gables with kneelers and finial, and a Westmorland slate roof laid to diminishing courses. Bank barn plan, linear in form, with waggon access from high ground to rear, and cattle standings to ground floor to front. South elevation; 2 storey with overloft, 5 bays with long lean-to at west end and lower in-line gabled addition at east end. Shallow canopy to ground floor supported on timber corbels and plate shelters cowhouse entries and feed passage doorways. Massive stepped plinth interrupted by 5 plain doorways with whitewashed surrounds. 2 doors have ventilation slits, 2 are subdivided horizontally and one is now a window. There are 2 small window openings with glazing and louvres. There is an inscribed circular slate in the wall below the canopy at the west end which reads 'W.S.1695'. Above the doorway, 2 courses of projecting throughstones, and to the centre, a former winnowing doorway, now enlarged and glazed, below a slated canopy. North elevation of single storey height, with full-height double doorway and boarded doors below curved timber lintol and enclosed within shallow slated canopy. Lean-to to west with double doorway below timber lintol. South wall to lean-to appears near contemporary, and has doorways at different levels. Interior not fully inspected but observed to have a boarded threshing/loft floor and strutted roof trusses supporting a double purlin roof. One of the earliest known examples of what is held to be an C18 building type.
Listing NGR: SD4280290578
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 351992
- 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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