Meadow Bank Farmhouse
MEADOW BANK FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1144410
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Meadow Bank Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MEADOW BANK FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1144410
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Meadow Bank Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MEADOW BANK 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:
- MEADOW BANK FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Westward
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 32385 48926
Details
NY 34 NW WESTWARD West Curthwaite
3/215 Meadow Bank Farmhouse 11.4.67 G.V. II*
Probably originally 2 houses, later one farmhouse, now private house. Dated and inscribed over entrance 1666 I.L. D.L. (John & Dorothy Losh) with C19 and C20 alterations. Clay walls on projecting stone plinth, repaired with red sandstone and supported by 3 stone buttresses, all whitewashed over. Corrugated iron roof over wheat-straw thatch on turf with eaves boarding; brick chimney stacks. Longhouse plan. Single storey with loft, 4 bays with former byre to left all under common roof. Chamfered-surround cross-passage entrance under inscribed Tudor arch. 2 C19 sash windows with glazing bars; small plain stair window and 2 small attic windows above. Small C19 casement window to extreme right and further plank door in wooden surround beyond. Stone shippon, under sandstone slate roof, projects from former byre at left and has stone mounting block at right side. Rear wall is rendered with corresponding cross-passage door. Small fire window in chamfered surround to left. Central stone outshut under Welsh slate roof has C20 windows. Former byre has C20 steel casement in partly-chamfered enlarged surround. Interior has one pair of full crucks. Inglenook has firebeam and stone heck with associated spice and salt cupboard recesses. Beamed ceilings. Lintel of one window is a reused part of a carved cupboard inscribed and dated A.C. 1623. End 2 bays at right have one internally blocked firewindow and C17 pegged purlins exposed by the removal of plaster ceilings. Central stone staircase is probably C18. A rare dated example of this type of house.
Listing NGR: NY3238548926
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 72519
- 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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