LAWRENCE HOUSE AND LEVENS BROW

LAWRENCE HOUSE AND LEVENS BROW, A6

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1145652
Date first listed:: 21-Nov-1952
List Entry Name:: LAWRENCE HOUSE AND LEVENS BROW
Statutory Address:: LAWRENCE HOUSE AND LEVENS BROW, A6

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1145652
Date first listed:: 21-Nov-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 16-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: LAWRENCE HOUSE AND LEVENS BROW
Statutory Address 1:: LAWRENCE HOUSE AND LEVENS BROW, A6

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: LAWRENCE HOUSE AND LEVENS BROW, A6

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

District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Levens
National Grid Reference:: SD 49639 85457

Details

SD 48 NE LEVENS A6 (East side)

1/22 Lawrence House and Levens Brow (Lawrence 21.11.52 House formerly listed as Lawrence House 12.2.52 with outbuildings, Levens Brow formerly listed as Lower House, Levens Brow)

G.V. II

Formerly the Agent's house for Levens Estate, now 2 houses. Main part of Lawrence House apparently rebuilt on earlier cellars following a fire in 1708; remodelled and extension (now Levens Brow) added to South probably early C19; North wing added c1910. Stone rubble walls, part rendered; graduated greenslate roof. 2 ridge chimneys and one eaves chimney, all with round shafts, to Lawrence House; 2 ridge chimneys each with 4 joined round shafts and one eaves chimney with paired round shafts to Levens Brow. Double depth plan. 2 storeys. Lawrence House: 4 windows, all C19, one 3-light stone mullioned-and- transomed window with hoodmould to each floor at right, the rest casements; 4- panelled door. Levens Brow: 2 windows, all C19 2- or 3-light stone mullioned- and-transomed with hoodmoulds and decorative leaded glazing. Gabled stone porch with 6-panelled outer door and heavy 6-panelled inner door with leaded glazing to upper panels. Interior of Lawrence house has chamfered beams and board doors, Levens Brow has original C19 interior virtually complete including panelled doors and surrounds, cornices and staircase.

Listing NGR: SD4963985457

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Legacy System number:: 75541
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.