Roe Head and Barns Adjoining
ROE HEAD AND BARNS ADJOINING
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1145526
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Roe Head and Barns Adjoining
- Statutory Address:
- ROE HEAD AND BARNS ADJOINING
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- Date:
- 2002-08-29
- Reference:
- IOE01/08782/12
- Rights:
- © Mr Gordon Furness. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1145526
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Roe Head and Barns Adjoining
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROE HEAD AND BARNS ADJOINING
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:
- ROE HEAD AND BARNS ADJOINING
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Castle Sowerby
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 40061 38795
Details
NY 43 NW CASTLE SOWERBY SOWERBY ROW
9/15 Roe Head and barns adjoining
II
Farmhouse and barns. Early C18 with C19 alterations. Painted incised stucco over sandstone rubble walls with V-jointed quoins. Graduated greenslate roof with coped gables; banded red sandstone gable end chimney stacks. Barns of mixed sandstone rubble walls, under part greenslate and red sandstone slate roofs. 2 storeys, 2 bays with slightly lower right C19 barn and left L-shaped barn extending to rear, forming overall U-shape. Central plank door in bolection architrave under cornice. 3-light flat-mullioned windows, those to left 2-light, in C19 surrounds, all in painted stone surrounds. Right barn has C20 casement windows under slit vents. Left barn is partly domestic; the gable wall has chamfered-surround C18 windows. Return wall has irregular casement windows in C19 painted stone surrounds. Rear of house has outshut with small 2-light stone-mullioned window and another similar window with mullion removed. L-shaped barn has central double plank doors in segmental arch and right pent extension. Right-angled extension has plank doors, loft openings, small openings and slit vents.
Listing NGR: NY4006138795
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 73737
- 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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