Spittal Farmhouse
SPITTAL FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213145
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Spittal Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SPITTAL FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213145
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Spittal Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPITTAL 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:
- SPITTAL FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wigton
- National Grid Reference:
- NY2632549377
Details
NY 24 NE WIGTON Wigton
12/108 Spittal Farmhouse
1/4/67
G.V. II
Farmhouse. Early C18 (datestone of 1707 inscribed THOMAS SIMPSON & MARGARET
SIMPSON now on barn, but may have come from house). Coursed red sandstone with
string course and flush quoins on chamfered plinth. Graduated greenslate roof
with sandstone chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 6 bays (formerly 7 bays);
contemporary 2-bay right-angled extension to rear forming L-shape; lower
2-storey, 2-bay former house to left, with further single-bay extension under
common roof. C20 panelled door in partly blocked chamfered surround; similar
blocked entrance to extreme left. Blocked ground floor windows have been
cross-mullioned, the same as the upper floor. Flanking narrow upper-floor fire
windows, that to right has been blocked. Extension to rear has small blocked
windows and cross-mullioned windows. Sash windows in original chamfered
surrounds replace other cross-mullioned windows. Porch in the angle has 4-panel
door in painted architrave under pediment. Former C17 house has pebble-dashed
walls under graduated greenslate roof with pebble-dashed chimney stacks.
Panelled door in painted chamfered surround and further plank door in extension
to left. C20 ground floor casement window with smaller windows above. Interior
has one pair of upper crucks. Interior of main house has large ground floor
room with broad inglenook fireplace; heck partition and arched wooden firebeam.
Beamed ceiling in this. and in ground floor room of extension. Wine cellar under
stairs, retains its original stone shelves. For details of the medieval
Hospital of St Leonards on this site see Transactions Cumberland & Westmorland
Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, new series, lx, pp86-7.
Listing NGR: NY2632549377
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 72063
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Vol. 1, (), 86-7
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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