Fox House
FOX HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1145976
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Fox House
- Statutory Address:
- FOX HOUSE
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- Date:
- 2002-11-18
- Reference:
- IOE01/09402/09
- Rights:
- © Mr Gordon Furness. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1145976
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Fox House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FOX HOUSE
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:
- FOX HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Matterdale
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 39678 23543
Details
MATTERDALE MATTERDALE END NY 32 SE 5/161 Fox House -
GV II Farmhouse part of former longhouse. Probably third quarter of C17. (1631 date on rack above built-in cupboard, with initials I.W., appears to be an import). Rubble, rendered on front; stone-flagged roof. North side to road blank except for plain boarded door. Main south front 2 storeys, 3 bays. Half-glazed 4-panel door to right bay, in place of former window. Two and three-light stone chamfered-mullioned windows and a small fire window at left. End chimneys. Interior: Ground floor retains heck partition and chamfered beams and joists, except for renewed fire beam. Door from house-place to parlour is flanked by original panelled oak built-in cupboards, the right one dated but see above. Lintel of blocked doorway from former through-passage remains. C18 north extension, with lobby and dairy conceals boulder plinth and blocked window of original 2-cell house. The former downhouse, now converted to a separate dwelling, is too much altered to be of interest.
Listing NGR: NY3967823543
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 74563
- 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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