FURNESS ABBEY, FORMER CUSTODIAN'S COTTAGE

FURNESS ABBEY, FORMER CUSTODIAN'S COTTAGE, ABBEY APPROACH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197908
Date first listed:: 21-Jul-1993
List Entry Name:: FURNESS ABBEY, FORMER CUSTODIAN'S COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: FURNESS ABBEY, FORMER CUSTODIAN'S COTTAGE, ABBEY APPROACH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197908
Date first listed:: 21-Jul-1993
Date of most recent amendment:: 20-Dec-1993
List Entry Name:: FURNESS ABBEY, FORMER CUSTODIAN'S COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: FURNESS ABBEY, FORMER CUSTODIAN'S COTTAGE, ABBEY APPROACH

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:: FURNESS ABBEY, FORMER CUSTODIAN'S COTTAGE, ABBEY APPROACH

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

District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 21958 71652

Details

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD27SW ABBEY APPROACH 708-1/4/280 Furness Abbey, former custodian's 21/07/93 cottage (Formerly Listed as: FURNESS ABBEY Former Custodian's Cottage)

II

Dwelling, the remnant of a larger, earlier building. Roof timbers dendrochronologically dated to late C15; exterior fabric extensively remodelled late C19. Coursed sandstone rubble, some massive, with C19 dressings. Westmoreland slate roof with single inserted ridge stack. 2-bay plan with C19 end wall entry and substantially raised ground floor level. North elevation a broad gable with central doorway beneath shallow lintel. Flanking the doorway are C19 chamfered mullioned windows, of 3 lights to the left, 2 lights to the right. 2-light window above door. Side walls with blocked mullioned windows at floor level, and small blocked lancets to wall centres at eaves level. West side with two C19 openings, south gable with 2 lean-to extensions. INTERIOR mainly remodelled in C19, arches to blocked window reveals in side walls are visible. Roof truss of heavy scantling against north gable with cambered collar and tie beam, apparently smoke-blackened as are the timbers of a central open truss, the principal rafters of which are carried on the ends of an interrupted tie beam with corbel supports below. Double trenched purlins, ridge purlin replaced. The building was formerly thought to have been a water-powered mill; its significance lies in its roof carpentry which may be some of the earliest surviving roof timbering of the Abbey site.

Listing NGR: SD2195871652

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Legacy System number:: 388376
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.