John Peel Cottage and Adjoining Barn
JOHN PEEL COTTAGE AND ADJOINING BARN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1144438
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- John Peel Cottage and Adjoining Barn
- Statutory Address:
- JOHN PEEL COTTAGE AND ADJOINING BARN
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- Date:
- 2007-06-09
- Reference:
- IOE01/16666/04
- Rights:
- © Mr Geoffrey Cole. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1144438
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- John Peel Cottage and Adjoining Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- JOHN PEEL COTTAGE 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:
- JOHN PEEL COTTAGE AND ADJOINING BARN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Caldbeck
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 29711 38728
Details
NY 23 NE CALDBECK Greenrigg
12/69 John Peel Cottage and adjoining barn 11.4.67 (formerly listed as John Peel Farmhouse)
G.V. II
Farmhouse and private house. Late C17 with alterations dated and inscribed over side window J & AS 1777 (John & Ann Scott). Cement render over mixed rubble on chamfered plinth. Graduated greenslate roof with cement coping and C19 yellow-brick chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 2 bays with single-bay stable to left under common roof and lower barn to extreme left. Sash windows in C18 surrounds to left; flat stone-mullioned window to right and original chamfered-surround window above with stone mullion removed. Stable has stone porch with side plank door. Small window to right and slit vents below eaves. Rear of house has plank door in painted stone surround. 2-light stone-mullioned stair window. Chamfered-surround fire windows to right on both floors and enlarged chamfered-surround windows to left. Stable has entrance and loft above. Barn to right has larger plank door. Home of John Peel, the famous huntsman, from the age of 3 weeks in 1777, until his marriage in 1797. See Hugh Machell, John Peel, 1926, p65, illustrated.
Listing NGR: NY2971138728
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 72377
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Machell, H, John Peel, (1926), 65
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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