High House and Adjoining Stable, Byres and Barn

HIGH HOUSE AND ADJOINING STABLE, BYRES AND BARN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1144546
Date first listed:
08-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:
High House and Adjoining Stable, Byres and Barn
Statutory Address:
HIGH HOUSE AND ADJOINING STABLE, BYRES AND BARN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1144546
Date first listed:
08-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:
High House and Adjoining Stable, Byres and Barn
Statutory Address 1:
HIGH HOUSE AND ADJOINING STABLE, BYRES AND 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HIGH HOUSE AND ADJOINING STABLE, BYRES AND BARN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Bewaldeth and Snittlegarth
National Park:
Lake District
National Grid Reference:
NY 21737 37242

Details

NY 23 SW BEWALDETH & SNITTLEGARTH SNITTLEGARTH

2/37 High House and adjoining stable, byres and barn

II

Farmhouse with stables and adjoining byres and barn. Dated and inscribed over entrance W.W. E.W. 1669 (Williamson), with C19 alterations. Rendered mixed rubble under graduated greenslate roof with stone chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 2 bays with 2-bay stable to right under common roof; lower right-angled barn to left and byre to right, forming overall U-shape. 4-panel door in chamfered surround under shaped inscribed lintel with hood mould. Sash windows with glazing bars in C19 stone surrounds replacing blocked 2-light stone-mullioned windows. Stable has doorway and C20 casement window with loft doorway above and C17 window with stone mullions removed. Byre has doorway and loft door above. Barn to left includes part of the original house. Projecting cart entrance reached by ramp with ground-floor doorways to left and upper-floor C17 windows with stone mullions removed. Lean-to dairy to left has open bellcote. Outshuts to rear of house have C17 windows with mullions removed. Interior of house has segmental stone-arched inglenook and beamed ground-floor ceilings. Further barn extensions are not of interest. Derelict and unoccupied at time of survey.

Listing NGR: NY2173737242

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
72121
Legacy System:
LBS

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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