High Head Castle Eighteenth Century Wing
HIGH HEAD CASTLE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY WING
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1145451
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- High Head Castle Eighteenth Century Wing
- Statutory Address:
- HIGH HEAD CASTLE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY WING
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- Date:
- 2002-09-02
- Reference:
- IOE01/08782/31
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1145451
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- High Head Castle Eighteenth Century Wing
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGH HEAD CASTLE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY WING
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:
- HIGH HEAD CASTLE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY WING
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Skelton
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 40279 43334
Details
NY 44 SW SKELTON HIGH HEAD
5/217 High Head Castle C18 Wing
G.V. II*
Country house in ruins, built on the site of a medieval castle. 1744-7, probably by James Gibbs for the Brougham family, partly destroyed by fire 1956. Red sandstone ashlar with string course, eaves modillions, open balustraded parapet and V-jointed quoins. Roofless but with banded ashlar sandstone chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 11 bays. Projecting pedimented 3-bay centre, with carved ornament in pediment, has central door in alternate-block surround with entablature and pediment. Stone window architraves. Return and rear walls are partly in ruins. Interior completely gutted. See Transactions Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, new series, xi, pp.379-384; for the attribution to James Gibbs see G. Beard, 'The Greater House in Cumbria', 1979, pp...... Derelict and unoccupied at the time of survey; owner's application to demolish refused in 1985.
Listing NGR: NY4027943334
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 73946
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Beard, G, The Greater House in Cumbria, (1978)
Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Vol. 11, (), 379-84
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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