Tower Wood Cottage and Attached Barn

TOWER WOOD COTTAGE AND ATTACHED BARN, NEWBY BRIDGE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1224962
Date first listed:
23-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:
Tower Wood Cottage and Attached Barn
Statutory Address:
TOWER WOOD COTTAGE AND ATTACHED BARN, NEWBY BRIDGE ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1224962
Date first listed:
23-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:
Tower Wood Cottage and Attached Barn
Statutory Address 1:
TOWER WOOD COTTAGE AND ATTACHED BARN, NEWBY BRIDGE ROAD

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
TOWER WOOD COTTAGE AND ATTACHED BARN, NEWBY BRIDGE ROAD

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

District:
Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Cartmel Fell
National Park:
Lake District
National Grid Reference:
SD 38612 91060

Details

CARTMEL FELL NEWBY BRIDGE ROAD SD 39 SE (West side) 3/31 Tower Wood Cottage and attached barn

II

House and barn. C17 or early C18 with later alterations. Painted stone rubble with slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays. South-west facade has 3-light single-chamfered-mullioned windows to 1st bay; 2nd bay has window with small-paned fixed glazing with opening pane; 3rd bay has sashed windows with vertical glazing bars. Central entrance has gabled slate canopy. Gable-end stack and cross-axial stack. Barn to right has partly remaining dripcourse over cow-house entrance and 2 windows. Lean-to outhouse to left return. Rear has irregular fenestration; 1st bay has sashed windows with vertical glazing bars and horns; 2nd and 3rd bays have wooden chamfered-mullioned windows, of 2 lights to ground floor and of 3 lights to 1st floor; recessed entrance. Barn to left has entrance up ramp, raised above eaves with raking roof. Ground floor has 2 entrances flanking window to right of ramp; 1st floor has 3 windows; some slated lintels.

Listing NGR: SD3861291060

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
421175
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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