Longthwaite Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn

LONGTHWAITE FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING BARN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1144552
Date first listed:
03-Mar-1967
List Entry Name:
Longthwaite Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn
Statutory Address:
LONGTHWAITE FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING BARN
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1144552
Date first listed:
03-Mar-1967
List Entry Name:
Longthwaite Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn
Statutory Address 1:
LONGTHWAITE FARMHOUSE 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.

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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

Location

Statutory Address:
LONGTHWAITE FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING BARN

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

District:
Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Borrowdale
National Park:
Lake District
National Grid Reference:
NY 25542 14367

Details

NY 21 SE BORROWDALE ROSTHWAITE

20/50 Longthwaite Farmhouse and adjoining barn 3.3.67 II

Farmhouse and adjoining barn. Mid C17. Whitewashed rendered walls on boulder plinth, under graduated greenslate roof with rebuilt slate chimney stacks. Barn of slate and cobble rubble. 2 storeys, 3 bays with barn to left under common roof. Plank door within C17 gabled stone porch with side seats. Casement windows with glazing bars, and to left of porch a sash with glazing bars, all in plain reveals. Barn has front plank double doors and rear recessed doorway. One C17 wooden mullioned window. Interior of house has beamed ground-floor ceilings and a built-in court cupboard inscribed and dated G. & M.W. 1691 (Gawine & Mary Wren). Court cupboard illustrated in, Shelagh Sutton, The story of Borrowdale, 1974, p14.

Listing NGR: NY2554214367

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Legacy System number:
72134
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Sources

Books and journals
Sutton, S, The Story of Borrowdale, (1974), 14

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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