Orchard House
ORCHARD HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205641
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard House
- Statutory Address:
- ORCHARD HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205641
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-1957
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ORCHARD 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:
- ORCHARD HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Waterhead
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 63214 66830
Details
NY 66 NW WATERHEAD GILSLAND
27/102 Orchard House, (previously listed as Orchard House Hotel)
1.4.57 II
House, formerly hotel. Late C18 with early C19 extensions. Painted coursed rubble on chamfered plinth with raised V-jointed quoins and string course; hipped graduated green slate roof with projecting rafters under overhanging eaves. 3 storeys, 5 bays with flanking wings of 2 storeys, 4 bays each. 2 entrances with C20 doors in moulded stone architraves; shallow gabled porches on Greek Doric columns, formed from iron rods to give the effect of fluting. Sash windows with glazing bars in plain painted raised surrounds. Cellar windows in right wing have C20 casement windows. Visited by Sir Walter Scott in 1797 when it was the Orchard House Inn. Listing excludes outbuildings.
Listing NGR: NY6321466830
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 78179
- 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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