Former Powder Magazine 150 Metres South West of Chapel Houses
FORMER POWDER MAGAZINE 150 METRES SOUTH WEST OF CHAPEL HOUSES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1144925
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Former Powder Magazine 150 Metres South West of Chapel Houses
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER POWDER MAGAZINE 150 METRES SOUTH WEST OF CHAPEL HOUSES
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- Date:
- 2006-04-27
- Reference:
- IOE01/15412/27
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1144925
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Former Powder Magazine 150 Metres South West of Chapel Houses
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER POWDER MAGAZINE 150 METRES SOUTH WEST OF CHAPEL HOUSES
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:
- FORMER POWDER MAGAZINE 150 METRES SOUTH WEST OF CHAPEL HOUSES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Alston Moor
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 78224 43886
Details
The following building shall be added
NY 74 SE ALSTON MOOR NENTHEAD
7/82 Former Powder Magazine 150 metres South West of Chapel Houses II
Farmbuilding, originally a gunpowder magazine belonging to the London Lead Company. Probably early C19. Coursed rubble with stone flag pyramidal roof. Square plan, with inserted cross wall (and later temporary farm shelters abutting). Single original doorway in walls 18"-20" thick: small windows look later, probably made by enlarging ventilation slits. Massively constructed roof with central post supported by cross ties, raked struts to alternate principals, corner ties, and substantial wall plates. Flag floor 2 later doorways associated with its post-industrial use as a cattle/sheep shed. Note: a deed of 1782 records the conveyance of a magazine to the London Lead Company (which dominated Nenthead); the present building probably post- dates the company's acquisition.
Listing NGR: NY7822443886
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 73238
- 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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