Town End House and the Courts
TOWN END HOUSE AND THE COURTS, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1145784
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Town End House and the Courts
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN END HOUSE AND THE COURTS, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1145784
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1962
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Mar-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Town End House and the Courts
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN END HOUSE AND THE COURTS, MAIN STREET
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:
- TOWN END HOUSE AND THE COURTS, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kirkby Lonsdale
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 61184 78498
Details
MAIN STREET 1. 5166 (west side) Town End House and The Courts (formerly listed as Town End House with gatepiers attached at left hand side) SD 6178 NW 5/55 12.2.62 II
2. 1777. Two storeys and basement. Ashlar. Slate roof. Three chimneys. Symmetrical five bay composition with a sixth bay added in the same style at left hand end. Rustication, vermiculated to basement lintels then banded to ground floor sills. Two strings and modillion cornice. Rainwater heads with "R.G. 1777" for Richard Gathorne. Windows with sills and plain reveals, sashed with all glazing bars. Fourth window of first floor, tripartite, forms canted bay carried on two Doric columns over doorway. Six panel door. Across front wrought iron railings on stone plinth with some urn finials. Extension to left hand side, after 1870. Two storeys but lower and lacking cornice. One chimney. One window. Back is of rubble. Two storey semi- circular bay with eaves cornice. Windows with plain stone surrounds, sashed. Those to bay tripartite. Tall stair window with glazing bars. Modern door. Interior. Alcove in front hall with elliptical arch in wood. Open string stair with stick balusters and continuous wreathed handrail. On staircase ceiling small design of roses in plaster. Raised and fielded panelled shutters to most windows. Walls of cottages previously on site said to survive in basement. Adjoining house on left hand side two sandstone gatepiers with chamfered rustication and ball finials.
Listing NGR: SD6118478498
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 75168
- 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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