Seat Farmhouse, Cottage and Attached Barn
SEAT FARMHOUSE, COTTAGE AND ATTACHED BARN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1145266
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Seat Farmhouse, Cottage and Attached Barn
- Statutory Address:
- SEAT FARMHOUSE, COTTAGE AND ATTACHED BARN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1145266
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Seat Farmhouse, Cottage and Attached Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- SEAT FARMHOUSE, COTTAGE AND ATTACHED 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:
- SEAT FARMHOUSE, COTTAGE AND ATTACHED BARN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Barton and Pooley Bridge
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 46170 22284
Details
BARTON NY 42 SE 7/98 Seat Farmhouse, cottage and attached barn
- II 2 Houses and barn with connecting outbuilding. Probably late C17 or early C18, dated lintels: 1662 and 1779. Stone rubble, the houses part limewashed, slate roofs. L-plan, the outbuilding at an angle connecting houses and barn. West elevation of 2 storeys and 3+2 bays, the 4th and 5th bays form cottage, formerly outbuilding. Windows mostly sashed with single glazing bars in chamfered reveals, but 3rd bay of ground floor has C20 casement and 1st bay of 1st floor has paired sash. Entrance to 2nd bay has key inscribed: "E ' MT/1779", boarded door. Cottage has large entrance with cambered timber lintel, now glazed infill and entrance; 2 casements above; end entrance up steps next to entrance to lower ground level. Gable-end stack and cross-axial stack. Outbuilding is canted forward; elliptical arched entrance and flanking windows. North elevation of barn has central elliptical-headed entrance with key inscribed: "W & AS/1731". End entrances and inserted windows; ventilation slots; collar and tie beams to trusses. East elevation has continuous outshut under catslide roof. Varied fenestration with 2-light single-chamfered-mullioned stair window and 2 windows with small-paned fixed glazing. Small wing to east, gabled outbuilding now connected to house, covers dated lintel: 1662.
Listing NGR: NY4617022284
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 74499
- 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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