Water Side House
WATER SIDE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225329
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Water Side House
- Statutory Address:
- WATER SIDE HOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225329
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Water Side House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATER SIDE 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:
- WATER SIDE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Colton
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- SD3646286355
Details
COLTON NEWBY BRIDGE
SD 38 NE
7/54
Water Side House
II
House. Probably 1650-60 with extension of 1675. Roughcast stone with slate
roof. 3 storeys, 5 bays, with single-storey single-bay former outbuilding to
left. Most windows are sashed with single-glazing bars and horns but 2nd bay of
ground floor has vertical glazing bars and 3rd bay has window with small-paned
fixed glazing; 2nd floor has 2-light windows; former outbuilding has 3-light
wooden mullioned window, chamfered to inside. Entrance to 3rd bay has 2-panel
door, that to 4th bay has wide-boarded door with old lock plate. Gable-end
stacks to 3-storey part, that to left has truncated projecting part. Rear has
gabled wing with lean-to stair wing to left return. 1st bay has C20 casement to
ground floor; stair wing has 2 windows with fixed glazing; left return of wing
has ground floor 3-light wooden chamfered-mullioned window with slated lintel;
floors above have casement windows, that to 2nd floor with iron opening light.
Right return of wing has 2 wooden chamfered-mullioned windows of 3 lights, that
to right is C20; 1st floor has similar window of 4 lights with 3 remaining
intermediate bars, glazing to outside. Gable-end stack. Former outshut has
sashed window with glazing bars and horns, with 3-light wooden flat-mullioned
window to right. Left return has 3-light wooden mullioned window, chamfered
inside, entrance with wide-boarded door to left and 1st floor wide-boarded
studded loading door. Right return is blind. Interior: Ovolo moulded beams;
fireplace with corbelled lintel and moulded opening with spice cuboard with door
frame to left. 2 doors with 2 fielded panels and dado rails in bolection
architraves; 2-light wooden chamfered-mullioned window with intermediate bars
and wooden shutters in former rear wall, a rare example. Wing has fireplace
plaster overmantel with oak trail border and date 1675 with flanking initials:
"RTI" and "CRA". Robert and Isobel Taylor and Charles and Agnes Robinson
(Daughter to the Taylors). Dog-leg stair has turned balusters, square newels
and moulded hand rail. 1st floor has fielded panelled partitions with dado
rails and doors as above, the end rooms with bolection-moulded panelling.
Listing NGR: SD3646286355
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 421453
- 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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