Barn/implement Store With Clock Tower East of Mechi Farmhouse
BARN/IMPLEMENT STORE WITH CLOCK TOWER EAST OF MECHI FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1144457
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Barn/implement Store With Clock Tower East of Mechi Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BARN/IMPLEMENT STORE WITH CLOCK TOWER EAST OF MECHI FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1144457
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Barn/implement Store With Clock Tower East of Mechi Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARN/IMPLEMENT STORE WITH CLOCK TOWER EAST OF MECHI 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:
- BARN/IMPLEMENT STORE WITH CLOCK TOWER EAST OF MECHI FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Blennerhasset and Torpenhow
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 17451 41121
Details
NY 14 SE BLENNERHASSET & TORPENHOW Blennerhasset (NY 17450 41120) Barn/implement store 5/11B with clock tower east of Mechi Farmhouse
GV II
Sheep shed, coach house and butching house, with adjoining clock tower, now store with hay loft above. 1865 for William Lawson of Brayton. Polychrome rubble walls with flush red-sandstone quoins, under Welsh slate roof, the rear span under corregated asbestos roof. Red-sandstone ashlar clock tower. Long 2-storey, 6-bay building of double span with left tall square clock tower. 3 segmental arches with boarded doors and 2 C20 sliding plank doors, all under loft doorway and plain sandstone openings (one glazed). Tower has round clock- face openings on each side under round-arched vents, but clock now removed. William Lawson in Ten Year of Gentleman Farming, 1874, p.156, states "these were to fatten sheep at a wonderful rate; but the scheme never did well". Forms part of a model farm group and listed for GV with Mechi farmhouse and farm buildings.
Listing NGR: NY1745141121
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 72318
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lawson, W, Ten Years of Gentleman Farming, (1874), 156
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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