Raby Cote and Adjoining Barn
RABY COTE AND ADJOINING BARN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1144612
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Raby Cote and Adjoining Barn
- Statutory Address:
- RABY COTE AND ADJOINING BARN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1144612
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Raby Cote and Adjoining Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- RABY COTE 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.
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:
- RABY COTE AND ADJOINING BARN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Holme East Waver
- National Grid Reference:
- NY1794652395
Details
NY 15 SE HOLME EAST WAVER Raby
6/23 Raby Cote and
adjoining barn
1/4/67 II
Farmhouse and barn. Mid C16 for the Chambers family with extensive early or mid
C17 alterations and further C18 and C20 extensions. Barn dated and inscribed on
stone in rear wall J. & M.C. (John & Margaret Chambers) 1675. Squared and
coursed red sandstone from Holme Cultram Abbey, with flush quoins, on reused
chamfered plinth with inverted inscription GILBERT LAMOTTE, JOHN DE BOTHILL,
VICAR OF BURG. THE YEAR WAS THE VITH ROBERT ABBOT OF HOLM, AND OF OUR LORD
MDXIII. VIII HENRY KING (thought to have come from the chapterhouse of the
Abbey). C20 sandstone-effect tile roof with cement rendered chimney stacks. 2
storeys, 4 bays with lower single-bay brick extension to right; slightly higher
2-storey, 2-bay barn to left. C20 door in painted chamfered surround. C20
casement windows in enlarged surrounds, those on upper floor in chamfered
surrounds. C18 brick extension has C20 door and casement window in painted
stone surrounds. Upper floor sash window under tracery panel from the Abbey.
Rear cement rendered C20 farmhouse wall. Barn also of Abbey stone under C20
green tile roof. 2 C20 garage doors cut through blocked stone-surround
windows. Loft plank door over coat of arms panel from the Abbey. Barn rear
wall incorporates sculptured stone of Virgin & Child over Abbey arms and Latin
inscription. Further sculptured stone coat of arms of Robert Chambers, Abbot of
Holme Cultram. Left part of rear wall has blocked 2-light stone-mullioned
windows of the C16 house which continues as a thick internal passage wall in the
present farmhouse. Internal niche in the passage was probably a fire window.
Front room fire beam and beamed ceiling with similar beams in bedroom above.
Rear farmhouse extension has unusual painted tin ceilings imitating C17 moulded
plasterwork. See Transactions Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian &
Archaeological Society, new series, i, pp194-233. Right-angled brick extension
to barn is not of interest.
Listing NGR: NY1794652395
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 71974
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Vol. 1, (), 194-233
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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