Orthwaite Hall and Adjoining Barn
ORTHWAITE HALL AND ADJOINING BARN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1144419
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Orthwaite Hall and Adjoining Barn
- Statutory Address:
- ORTHWAITE HALL AND ADJOINING BARN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1144419
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Orthwaite Hall and Adjoining Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- ORTHWAITE HALL AND ADJOINING BARN
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:
- ORTHWAITE HALL AND ADJOINING BARN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ireby and Uldale
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 25272 34183
Details
NY 23 SE IREBY Orthwaite
16/126 Orthwaite Hall and adjoining barn 11.4.67 II*
Farmhouse and former house now barn. Probably late C16 or early C17 with new house dated and inscribed on coat-of-arms panel over barn doorway: C.R.1675 (Christopher Richmond, arms Richmond of Highhead impaling Hudleston of Hutton John). Painted mixed slate and limestone rubble under graduated greenslate roof with stone chimney stacks. Barn has roughcast walls under graduated greenslate roof partly replaced with corrugated asbestos. 2 storeys, 6 bays with right-angled barn to left, of common roof line. C20 panelled door in stone architrave under segmental pediment. 2-light stone-mullioned windows with C19 leaded casements, in architraves under pulvinated frieze and cornice. Barn has blocked original house windows now covered by roughcast. Central doorway with chamfered alternate-block surround under keyed lintel. Plank loft door and all other openings are C19 and C20. Rear extensions are partly C17 and C19; that to right has a 2-light window with stone mullion removed and a C19 round-headed staircase window to left. Belonged to the Simpson family in early C17 until purchased by the Richmonds. Bought by Browne family in the early C18 and remained theirs until 1894. See Transactions Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, new series, lxix, pp221-239; lxx, pp146-160.
Listing NGR: NY2527234183
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 72434
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, (), 221-239
Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, (), 146-160
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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