The Bridge Café
The Bridge Café, High Hill, CA12 5NX
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1144651
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Bridge Café
- Statutory Address:
- The Bridge Café, High Hill, CA12 5NX
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1144651
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Bridge Café
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Bridge Café, High Hill, CA12 5NX
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:
- The Bridge Café, High Hill, CA12 5NX
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Keswick
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 26256 23752
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 November 2023 to amend the name, address, details in the description and reformat the text to current standards
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KESWICK
HIGH HILL
The Bridge Café
(Formerly listed as MAIN STREET Keswick Industrial Arts)
II
School of Industrial Arts and Crafts, 1893-4, by Paley, Austin and Paley for Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley. Snecked stone with Westmorland slate roofs. L-shape plan, local vernacular style. Two storeys with attic to front elevation and single storey workshops attached at the rear. Main entrance in bay three of the first floor, reached by an attached spiral-stair drum leading to a four-bay plain wooden verandah. Front facade has painted wooden inscription (quoting Robert Browning) above the (altered) three-bay window at ground-floor reading: 'The loving eye and patient hand, shall work with joy and bless the land'. The first floor has two 32-pane windows and a half-glazed door set back at verandah level with long roof dormer above. Facade completed by a two-storey gabled end bay, with two windows at ground level and a canted oriel window above. The front gable, side gable and double rear gables are all hung with Westmorland slates down to eaves level. Rear elevation of two storeys has a six-light, canted, first-floor bay window. Interior not inspected. Included for historical association with the founder. Canon Rawnsley was a patron of Beatrix Potter and co-founder of the National Trust, who (with his wife Edith, who supervised the teaching of metalwork) established the Keswick School of Industrial Arts in 1883.’
Listing NGR: NY2625623752
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 71878
- 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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