Gas House North East of Mechi Farmhouse
GAS HOUSE NORTH EAST OF MECHI FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1144458
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Gas House North East of Mechi Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- GAS HOUSE NORTH EAST OF MECHI FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1144458
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Gas House North East of Mechi Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- GAS HOUSE NORTH 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:
- GAS HOUSE NORTH 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 17409 41178
Details
NY 14 SE BLENNERHASSET & TORPENHOW Blennerhasset (NY 17410 41180)
5/11D Gas house north-east of Mechi Farmhouse
GV II
Gas house and smithy now farm store. 1863-4 for William Lawson of Brayton. Polychrome rubble walls with flush red-sandstone quoins, under Welsh slate roof and yellow-brick chimney stack. l½ storeys, double span, with tall square tapering chimney to centre rear. Plain boarded doors and blocked windows, all with red-sandstone surrounds,under round-headed louvred-vent openings. Left return wall has large C20 sliding plank door. Coal-fired furnaces provided gas for the farm and the village of Blennerhasset. William Lawson in Ten Years of Gentleman Farming, 1874, p.153, states that the gas was switched on on lst April 1865, Forms part of a model farm group and listed for GV with Mechi Farmhouse and farm buildings.
Listing NGR: NY1740941178
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 72320
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lawson, W, Ten Years of Gentleman Farming, (1874), 153
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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