ROOK HOW FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE AND COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1225464
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:: ROOK HOW FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE AND COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: ROOK HOW FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE AND COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1225464
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:: ROOK HOW FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE AND COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: ROOK HOW FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE AND COTTAGE

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:: ROOK HOW FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE AND COTTAGE

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District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Colton
National Park:: LAKE DISTRICT
National Grid Reference:: SD 33223 89542

Details

COLTON RUSLAND SD 38 NW 6/67 Rook How Friends' 25.3.70 Meeting House and cottage

G.V. II*

Meeting house and house. Date 1725 on door latch and spice cupboard door. Roughcast stone with slate roof. 2 storeys, 5 bays, the 3rd bay projects as 2-storey gabled porch, the 1st 2 bays are single storey. Most windows have wooden mullions chamfered to inside, of 2 lights to windows flanking entrance and to 5th bay, of 3 lights to 1st floor of 3rd bay and to 4th bay; most, except for 4th and 5th bays of ground floor, have leaded glazing with rectangular quarries. 1st 2 bays have 40-pane sashes. Segmental-headed entrance has ledged and battened door with strap hinges and 5 three-sided steps. Gable-end stack with rounded shaft. Later lean-to porch to right return. Rear has casement windows to 2 bays to left hand end with central cross-mullion stair window with intermediate bars and leaded glazing, diamond quarries. Interior of porch has stair to former gallery and entrances to meeting house and house; that to meeting house has decorative ironwork to latch; including date. Meeting house has bench to dais and wall supports to other benches; now removed. Gallery on 2 round timber posts has balustrade, with timber partitioning dating from early C20 when gallery was converted to bedroom. House has plank and muntin partitions, with moulding to muntins, to ground and 1st floors; 2-panel doors; dog-leg stair. Spice cupboard door has date and H hinges; hat pegs to ground-floor room. A well preserved meeting house with house attached, also well preserved.

Listing NGR: SD3322389542

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Legacy System number:: 421771
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.