Skirsgill
SKIRSGILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1145505
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Skirsgill
- Statutory Address:
- SKIRSGILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1145505
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Skirsgill
- Statutory Address 1:
- SKIRSGILL
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:
- SKIRSGILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dacre
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 50890 28575
Details
NY 52 NW DACRE PENRITH
17/67 Skirsgill
G.V. II
Country house. 1795 for the Whelpdale family with early C19 extension for the Parkin family. Red sandstone ashlar walls with string courses, eaves cornice, partly open balustraded parapet and angle pilasters carried up as chimneys, all on chamfered plinth. Hipped graduated greenslate roof with red sandstone banded ashlar chimney stacks. 2½ storeys, 7 bays, with flanking 2-storey, single-bay wings. Steps up to central glazed door and fanlight within a stone porch with panel recesses, under console-bracketed cornice and open balustraded parapet. Venetian window over entrance and tripartite attic window. Bow-fronted flanking bays have sash windows with glazing bars, all in plain reveals. Wings have sash windows with glazing bars in plain reveals under open balustraded parapets. Left return wall has pilastered bay window and sash windows similar to facade. Right return wall has large projecting pilastered porch with round arch of alternate voussoirs and flanking brackets; panelled double doors within. Rear recessed 7 bays with projecting pedimented wings, between which is a covered gallery of Ionic columns with plain frieze and modillioned cornice.
Listing NGR: NY5089028575
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 73788
- 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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