Low Wood Nook and Former Stables
LOW WOOD NOOK AND FORMER STABLES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1144496
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Low Wood Nook and Former Stables
- Statutory Address:
- LOW WOOD NOOK AND FORMER STABLES
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/07930/01
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1144496
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Low Wood Nook and Former Stables
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOW WOOD NOOK AND FORMER STABLES
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:
- LOW WOOD NOOK AND FORMER STABLES
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 19310 40556
Details
NY 14 SE BLENNERHASSET & TORPENHOW
5/7 Low Wood Rook and former stables
II
House and stables used in C19 as inn. Dated and inscribed over entrance J. & E.A. (Addison) 1663; with extensive C18 alterations and additions. Painted rendered walls on chamfered plinth under graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and stone chimney stacks. 2 storeys with attic, 2 bays with lower 2-bay extension and stables under common roof to left. c20 door in original C17 surround under inscribed lintel with hoodmould dated on the label stops. Double sash windows in late C18 painted stone surrounds. Central pointed attic window is now boarded. Extension has sash windows in painted stone surrounds, those on upper floor with glazing bars. Former stable has plank door and casement windows, some boarded, all in painted stone surrounds. Birthplace of Thomas Addison, later of London, who gave the ceiling for Torpenhow Church in 1689 and was a relative of Joseph Addison the essayist, see C.R. Hudleston & R.S. Boumphrey, Cumberland Families & Heraldry, 1978, pl.
Listing NGR: NY1931040556
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 72312
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hudleston, , Boumphrey, , Cumberland Families and Heraldry, (1978), 1
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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