Wattsfield Farmhouse and Cottage
WATTSFIELD FARMHOUSE AND COTTAGE, WATTSFIELD LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1145641
- Date first listed:
- 24-Apr-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Wattsfield Farmhouse and Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- WATTSFIELD FARMHOUSE AND COTTAGE, WATTSFIELD LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1145641
- Date first listed:
- 24-Apr-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Wattsfield Farmhouse and Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATTSFIELD FARMHOUSE AND COTTAGE, WATTSFIELD LANE
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:
- WATTSFIELD FARMHOUSE AND COTTAGE, WATTSFIELD LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kendal
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 51686 91291
Details
SD 59 SW KENDAL WATTSFIELD LANE
2/174 Watts field Farmhouse & Cottage (formerly listed 24-4-51 under Milnthorpe Road) G.V. II*
House and cottage. House C17, cottage added in C18. Later additions and alterations. Wet-dashed rubble on plinth. Graduated slate roofs with rendered mid and end chimneys (projecting chimney to rear house wing). 2 storeys with cellars to cottage. House 3 bays. Central full-height porch has panelled outer door in an architrave with (re-used?) segmental pediment enclosing winged head; small casement above. Original plank inner door, with strap hinges, in chamfered frame. C20 casement to either side on each floor. Cottage, adjoining to left, 2 bays. Glazed door and rectangular fanlight with sash to left and 2 sashes above. North return has 2 sashes, with original wide glazing bars, to each floor and 2 blocked 2-light stone-mullioned cellar windows; 2 similar cellar windows to stair wing at rear. Interior. House: Closed string, dog-leg stair with turned balusters and moulded handrail; square newels with ball finials. Moulded lintel to kitchen fireplace; remains of screen (?). Some remains of 1st floor plaster cornices. Cottage: Closed string, dog-leg stair with corkscrew balusters and moulded handrails; square newels (ball finials missing). Panelled ground floor front room features a semicircular-headed niche in pilastered surround; wooden cornices.
Listing NGR: SD5168691291
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 75519
- 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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