Holme Head House
HOLME HEAD HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197008
- Date first listed:
- 13-Nov-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Holme Head House
- Statutory Address:
- HOLME HEAD HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197008
- Date first listed:
- 13-Nov-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Holme Head House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLME HEAD 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:
- HOLME HEAD HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 39715 54501
Details
CARLISLE
NY3954 HOLME HEAD 671-1/15/179 Holme Head House 13/11/72 (Formerly Listed as: HOLME HEAD Manager's house, between Weaving shed and Bridge Terrace at Holme Head Works)
GV II
Manager's house, now offices. Mid C19 for Ferguson Brothers factory. English garden wall bond brickwork on chamfered plinth (all dressings of painted stone) with sill band and eaves cornice. Hipped overhanging slate roof; under the eaves at each angle are rows of small mill wheels; original ridge brick chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 3 bays with 2-bay returns; central entry stair, double-depth plan. Central panelled door and overlight, up steps, in pilastered porch. Flanking canted bay windows. Upper floor sash windows in stone architraves, the bays flanking the door project slightly for full height. Right return windows in stone architraves. INTERIOR not inspected. A plan of the factory complex in 1865 in Cumbria County Record Office, shows no house in this position, nor is it shown on the 1865 OS map, but it is on the 1900 OS map.
Listing NGR: NY3971554501
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386588
- 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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