Low Whinhowe Farmhouse and Adjoining Store

LOW WHINHOWE FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING STORE, CA10 3TF

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1145391
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
Low Whinhowe Farmhouse and Adjoining Store
Statutory Address:
LOW WHINHOWE FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING STORE, CA10 3TF
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1145391
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
Low Whinhowe Farmhouse and Adjoining Store
Statutory Address 1:
LOW WHINHOWE FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING STORE, CA10 3TF

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
LOW WHINHOWE FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING STORE, CA10 3TF

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Orton
National Park:
Lake District
National Grid Reference:
NY 59358 05424

Details

NY 50 NE,
12/76

ORTON,
GREENHOLME,
Low Whinhowe farmhouse and adjoining store

II

Farmhouse and adjoining store. Probably C17; later additions and alterations.
Coursed slate rubble, with quoins, on plinth; house stuccoed. Graduated slate
roof; original house has stair outshut to rear, outshut added to rear of C19
extension. 2 storeys. Original house 4 bays. Plank door in gabled porch with
fixed window to left and 2 sashes to right; 3 sashes above. 2 end chimneys
(right-hand one originally projecting). 2-bay C19 extension on right has C20
part-glazed door with casement window to right on each floor; corbelled end
chimney. All windows, except ground floor right, have glazing bars. Store,
probably C17, under same roof-line to left of house. Interior: Ground floor
room to left is separated from passage by plank and muntin partition; room to
right of passage has chamfered fire beam and original joists. Plank doors.


Listing NGR: NY5935805424

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
74095
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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