Barracks House
BARRACKS HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1144628
- Date first listed:
- 08-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Barracks House
- Statutory Address:
- BARRACKS HOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1144628
- Date first listed:
- 08-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Barracks House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARRACKS HOUSE
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:
- BARRACKS HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bowness
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 25303 60540
Details
NY 26 SE BOWNESS Glasson
3/31 Barracks House II
Fortified house. Early or mid C16 with C18 and C20 alterations. Walls a metre thick of red and yellow coursed sandstone (from the nearby Roman Wall); C20 tile roof with coped gables and kneelers, gables raised in height incorporating 1760s datestone with initials T.M.; C20 brick chimney stack. 2 storeys, 3 bays. C20 door in C18 opening. Original slit vents at 2 levels now blocked; water outlet at first floor level to left of entrance. C20 windows in C20 openings. End wall left, has original blocked attic window. Rear wall had C16 ground floor entrance with drawbar tunnel, now enlarged and the lintel used as a mantelpiece inside. Blocked C18 entrance and windows. C20 windows in C20 openings. Interior has remains of stone spiral staircase in the thickness of the wall left. Photographic record of the building before alteration in the RCHM files. Although very much altered this is an extremely rare building in this area, there being only one other example at Brackenrigg, south of Bowness. Cobble extension to left is of no interest.
Listing NGR: NY2530360540
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 71909
- 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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