Town Head
TOWN HEAD, A592
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266316
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Town Head
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HEAD, A592
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266316
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Town Head
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN HEAD, A592
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:
- TOWN HEAD, A592
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Staveley-in-Cartmel
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 38369 87720
Details
STAVELEY-IN-CARTMEL A592 SD 38 NE (West side) 7/99 Town Head
II
House, part used as antique shop. C18 with early C19 additions. Roughcast stone with slate roofs. South facade of 2 storeys and 5 bays, the end bays are recessed and lower with hipped roofs and verandahs. 1st floor sill band, and top cornice to end bays. Windows are sashed with glazing bars, 5th bay of ground floor and 1st and 5th bays of 1st floor have tripartite windows. 3-bay verandahs have unfluted Doric columns with frieze, cornice and parapet. Gable-end stacks. Left return similar of 3 bays, the 3rd breaking forward with 2-storey bowed bay with triple sashed windows. Right return of 6 bays, the 1st bay breaking forward, the 6th bay higher. 1st bay has 2-storey bowed bay and projecting single storey service wing; lean-to porch to 4th bay. Cross-axial and gable end stacks. Rear has gabled stair wing and stack in roof slope. Site has historic connections with ferry across Lake Windermere.
Listing NGR: SD3836987720
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 421909
- 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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