Swinsty Farmhouse
SWINSTY FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1212570
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Swinsty Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SWINSTY FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1212570
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Swinsty Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWINSTY 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:
- SWINSTY FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Holme Abbey
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 17482 50304
Details
NU 15 SE HOLME ABBEY Abbeytown
6/15 Swinsty Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Dated and inscribed over former entrance J & J.J. 1667, with extensive C18 and C19 alterations; extension dated 1866. Whitewashed rendered rubble walls, partly of stone from Holme Cultram Abbey. Graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and kneelers; stone chimney stacks. 2-storey, 3-bay farmhouse with flanking extensions under common roof. 4-panel door under glazed fanlight in C19 painted stone surround. Sash windows with glazing bars in painted stone surrounds. Ground floor 2-pane sash window to extreme right was formerly an entrance with shaped lintel dated and inscribed (probably moved from its original position). Built into wall below eaves to right of entrance, is the capital of a 3-shaft column from the Abbey. Extension to left has plank door in painted stone surround. Projecting datestone above entrance and similar uninscribed stone to right. Contemporary outshut to rear has stone mullioned windows with mullions removed and smaller chamfered-surround fire window. James Jackson's Diary 1650 to 1683, Transactions Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, new series, vol i, p113, "My new house begun wth to build Apr. 15th 1667 by Edwd Ben and his men;" p116 "May 22nd 1651. Memoranda we removed from Cannonby to Swinsty in Holme Cultram this day." Adjoining outbuildings are not of interest.
Listing NGR: NY1748250304
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 71966
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, (), 116
Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, (), 113
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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