Stable Block East of Lowther Castle
STABLE BLOCK EAST OF LOWTHER CASTLE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1145326
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Stable Block East of Lowther Castle
- Statutory Address:
- STABLE BLOCK EAST OF LOWTHER CASTLE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1145326
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Stable Block East of Lowther Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- STABLE BLOCK EAST OF LOWTHER CASTLE
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:
- STABLE BLOCK EAST OF LOWTHER CASTLE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lowther
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 52298 23825
Details
NY 52 SW LOWTHER LOWTHER
12/138 Stable block east of Lowther Castle 6.2.68
GV II*
Stables and Coach house adjoining Lowther Castle. 1806-9 by Sir Robert Smirke for 1st Earl of Lonsdale. Calciferous sandstone ashlar with string courses and battlemented parapets. Graduated greenslate roofs, partly hipped. Buildings on 3 sides of courtyard. Rear 2-storey, 7-bay coach house has ground-floor segmental arches under 2-light stone-mullioned windows with hoodmoulds. Battlemented parapet rises in centre with clock face and Lowther arms. Right single-storey, 4-bay quadrant link and left similar 2-storey link, have central segmental arch and sash windows under hoodmoulds. Left 2-storey, 9-bay stables has 7 recessed bays with flanking rectangular battlemented turrets. Central segmental arch and sash windows under hoodmoulds. Turrets have rounded-arched windows. Right domestic/stable range is similar to the left range opposite, but with angle turrets on projecting bays, that to right forming part of the return wall of the castle facade. The Household Accounts of the Earl of Lonsdale in the County Record Office, Carlisle, record payment on 30 June 1806, to William Bayles & Co, of £10. 2s. 6d. "for removing 405 yards of earth previous to laying foundations for new stables, coach houses, etc". Graded for group value with Lowther Castle.
Listing NGR: NY5229823825
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 74346
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 9 Cumbria,
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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