Widewath Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings
WIDEWATH FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FARM BUILDINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1145270
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Widewath Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- WIDEWATH FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FARM BUILDINGS
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- Date:
- 2003-08-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/11320/19
- Rights:
- © Mr Gordon Furness. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1145270
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Widewath Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- WIDEWATH FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FARM BUILDINGS
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:
- WIDEWATH FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FARM BUILDINGS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Askham
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- NY5006821031
Details
ASKHAM
NY 52 SW
8/6 Widewath Farmhouse and
- attached farm buildings
- II
Farmhouse and attached barn. Late C17 with later alterations and additions.
Coursed stone rubble, the house plastered, with slate roof. House south-east
elevations of 2 storeys and 4 bays. Quoins. 1st 2 bays have sashed windows
with 20 panes, 2nd 2 bays have sashed windows with 12 panes, but 2nd bay of
ground floor has 3-light window with flat faced mullions in chamfered reveals
and 3rd bay of 1st floor has sash with single glazing bars. Entrance to 3rd bay
has gabled porch with rusticated jambs, pedimented gable with kneelers and
cartouche inscribed: "RM/1674" (Mounsey). Entrance has chamfered reveals and
half-glazed door. Left hand end part of higher barn, which has gable-end stack;
cross-axial stack and gable-end stack. Barn to right is rough-cast; elliptical-
headed barn entrance with key and adjoining smaller entrance; pitching hole;
smaller outbuilding to right has elliptical-headed niche and segmental-headed
entrance with recessed reveals. Barn to left of 2 phases, that next to house
has 3 entrances to ground floor, one with C20 domestic door, and winnowing
door. Phase to left has small wing with outer return outshut under catslide
roof, 4 entrances 2 segmental-headed, one with sunk triangular head and one with
gabled canopy. 1st floor entrance up winding steps. Rear has gabled wing with
paired window partly blocked by parts of mullioned window. Outbuildings have 2
outshuts under catslide roofs one with paired doors. Interior, not inspected,
said to have C17 panelled partition and court cupboard dated 1729 (provisional
list).
Listing NGR: NY5006821031
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 74404
- 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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