Townhead, Including Townhead Cottage and Barn Attached With Garden Walls and Railings
TOWNHEAD, INCLUDING TOWNHEAD COTTAGE AND BARN ATTACHED WITH GARDEN WALLS AND RAILINGS, CA10 2NF
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1145241
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Townhead, Including Townhead Cottage and Barn Attached With Garden Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- TOWNHEAD, INCLUDING TOWNHEAD COTTAGE AND BARN ATTACHED WITH GARDEN WALLS AND RAILINGS, CA10 2NF
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1145241
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1991
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Aug-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Townhead, Including Townhead Cottage and Barn Attached With Garden Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWNHEAD, INCLUDING TOWNHEAD COTTAGE AND BARN ATTACHED WITH GARDEN WALLS AND RAILINGS, CA10 2NF
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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:
- TOWNHEAD, INCLUDING TOWNHEAD COTTAGE AND BARN ATTACHED WITH GARDEN WALLS AND RAILINGS, CA10 2NF
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Martindale
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 42337 19616
Details
NY 41 NW,
10/139
MARTINDALE,
SANDWICK,
Townhead, including Townhead Cottage and Barn attached with garden walls and railings
(Formerly listed as: MARTINDALE, SANDWICK, Town End, Town End Cottage and attached barn and garden walls and railings
GV
II
2 houses and bank barn. Date stones, 1720 and 1857. House roughcast stone
rubble, barn dressed stone with sandstone dressings, hipped slate roof. East
elevation of 2 storeys and 4 bays, the 1st bay an extension forming cottage, of
one storey due to high ground level; barn to north. Windows are sashed with
glazing bars, paired windows to ground floor and 1st bay; small-paned fire
window to 4th bay. Entrance to 3rd bay has 6-fielded-panel door. 2 ashlar
cross-axial stacks with moulded caps. Front garden walls have plain iron
railings and rusticated gate and angle piers with ogival caps; iron gates have
decorative finials. Barn has 2 windows with small-paned glazing, one an
insertion and 2 entrances, that adjoining house has one chamfered jamb and
lintel inscribed: "I & AS/1720". Winnowing door. Slate date stone inscribed:
RICHARD GRAVE HINDSON 1857". Rear has 2 gabled wings to houses; barn entrance has long wing to north, outshut under catslide roof to south. Small-paned
glazing to most windows.
Listing NGR: NY4233719616
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 74541
- 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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