Watson Farmhouse
WATSON FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1210286
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Watson Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WATSON FARMHOUSE
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- Date:
- 2002-08-01
- Reference:
- IOE01/08484/06
- Rights:
- © Mr Gordon Furness. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1210286
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Watson Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATSON FARMHOUSE
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:
- WATSON FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Greystoke
- National Grid Reference:
- NY4447929530
Details
NY 42 NW GREYSTOKE GREYSTOKE GILL
15/109 Watson Farmhouse
II*
Farmhouse. Late C18. Painted stucco walls with string course, eaves cornice
and V-jointed quoins, on chamfered plinth. Graduated greenslate roof with coped
gables and kneelers; banded sandstone chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 2 bays with
lower flanking lean-to wings, that to right extending at rear. House has sash
windows with glazing bars intersecting in round heads, those on right
Venetian windows, all in stone surrounds. Wings have C20 doors in
alternate-block surrounds with keyed lintels, the left door under sash window
and the right one under smaller casement window. Right return wall has large
C20 door in segmental arch of alternate blocks and C20 casement windows in C19
stone surrounds. Interior of exceptional quality. Oak panelled doors and
architraves throughout; oak turned stair balusters. Principal room has stone
heck post, and panelled fire beam with cupboards built into inner face; good
spice and salt cupboards. Corner dresser and delft rack with moulded cornice,
all built in. Staircase squint to kitchen, curved slopstone in former dairy.
Panelled window shutters on ground-floor.
Listing NGR: NY4447929530
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 73830
- 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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