Sleetbeck

SLEETBECK

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1205178
Date first listed:
15-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:
Sleetbeck
Statutory Address:
SLEETBECK

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Date:
2002-08-26
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1205178
Date first listed:
15-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:
Sleetbeck
Statutory Address 1:
SLEETBECK

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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SLEETBECK

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

District:
Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Bewcastle
National Grid Reference:
NY 49857 76182

Details

NY 47 NE BEWCASTLE SLEETBECK

8/46 Sleetbeck

G.V. II

House. Probably late C17 for Sowerby family, with alterations dated with initials, 1744 W. (&) A.G. (William & Anne Greenwell) over rear entrance. Dressed calciferous sandstone on squared plinth with raised quoins; steeply pitched green slate roof with coped gables and kneelers, ashlar ridge chimney stacks. 2½ storeys, 7 bays. Off-centre C20 glazed door in moulded architrave with dentilled moulded pediment; carved coat of arms of Greenwell with Sowerby, above. 2-pane sash windows in C18 raised stone surrounds. 2-light attic windows retain their original chamfered mullions and chamfered surrounds. Out-shut to rear has entrance in plain stone surround, datestone above decorated with carved scallop shells and leaves. Small blocked window to left; other blocked windows are C18 and C19 with C20 windows in C20 openings. William Greenwell was Sheriff of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1739, see Hudleston & Boumphrey, Cumberland Families & Heraldry, 1978, pp139-140 & p316.

Listing NGR: NY4985776182

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Legacy System number:
78133
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Hudleston, , Boumphrey, , Cumberland Families and Heraldry, (1978), 139-140
Hudleston, , Boumphrey, , Cumberland Families and Heraldry, (1978), 316

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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