Guides Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings

GUIDES FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FARM BUILDINGS, CART LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1269699
Date first listed:
02-May-1975
List Entry Name:
Guides Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings
Statutory Address:
GUIDES FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FARM BUILDINGS, CART LANE
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1269699
Date first listed:
02-May-1975
Date of most recent amendment:
12-Jul-1996
List Entry Name:
Guides Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings
Statutory Address 1:
GUIDES FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FARM BUILDINGS, CART LANE

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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:
GUIDES FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FARM BUILDINGS, CART LANE

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

District:
Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Grange-Over-Sands
National Grid Reference:
SD 40078 76467

Details

GRANGE-OVER-SANDS

SD4076 CART LANE 705-1/6/1 (West side) 02/05/75 Guides Farmhouse and attached farm buildings (Formerly Listed as: CART LANE Guides Farmhouse and adjoining farm buildings)

II

House and attached farm buildings. Mid or late C17 with C18 and C19 additions and alterations. House of painted roughcast, barn of exposed limestone rubble, and single-storey range of painted rubble and brick. Slate roofs. Comprises a house to the north, a taller bank barn to the south with its main upper doorway on the west side, and a single-storey range projecting towards the east from the junction between house and barn. The house is of 3-cell plan and of 2 storeys plus attic. The windows have plain reveals and projecting sills and are mostly sashed. On the ground floor there are 3 windows (the middle one with paired sashes) and on the 1st floor there are 5. The attic has one casement window set between 2 blind recesses. To the right of the 1st window is a door with plain reveals. To the left of the right-hand window is a 2nd door with plain reveals which has a flat stone hood on brackets. Chimneys on right-hand gable and to left of 2nd doorway. The north wall of the single-storey range contains 2 doorways and has a chimney on the ridge. The barn has openings with plain reveals and rough stone arches. At the lower level there are 2 shippon doorways, a central cart store doorway, and a small window at the left. At the upper level there is a central threshing door. INTERIOR: the central room on the ground floor has 2 main ceiling beams with sunken quadrant mouldings, the right-hand one originally serving as a firehood bressumer. The room is divided from the southern room by a stone partition wall. The rear staircase is said to be of stone, now covered with timber. The house is the residence of the official guide for the oversands route.

Listing NGR: SD4007876467

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Legacy System number:
460506
Legacy System:
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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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