Dragley Beck Cottage
DRAGLEY BECK COTTAGE, RAKE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270157
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Dragley Beck Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- DRAGLEY BECK COTTAGE, RAKE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270157
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Dragley Beck Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- DRAGLEY BECK COTTAGE, RAKE LANE
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:
- DRAGLEY BECK COTTAGE, RAKE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ulverston
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 29036 77565
Details
ULVERSTON
SD27NE RAKE LANE, Dragley Beck 626-1/1/145 Dragley Beck Cottage 20/06/72
II
Also known as: Sir John Barrow's Cottage RAKE LANE. House, now shop with accommodation above. C17, altered. Painted roughcast with slate roof replacing thatch. Single storey with loft and with outshut at rear. To each side of the doorway there is a window with plain reveals, slate sill, and 3-light timber casement: the left-hand window is at a slightly higher level. The doorway has plain reveals. The right-hand (east) gable has a brick chimney cap with diagonal shafts. The left-hand gable wall is blank. Against the right-hand gable wall are 2 single-storey outhouses of unequal size, with monopitch roofs which meet at a central valley. Above is a blocked attic window of 2 lights with chamfered timber mullions. The rear wall has low eaves and 3 windows with plain reveals. INTERIOR: to the left of the doorway is a solid masonry wall. The left-hand room has sawn timber ceiling joists and an access hatch leading to the attic. The right-hand room has 2 roughly chamfered main beams, one probably originally a firehood bressumer. The fireplace has a timber cornice mantel. Above is a marble tablet with an inscription which is said to read: 'In this humble cottage, the best memorial of his enterprising spirit, industry and perseverance, was born on the 19th June, 1764, Sir John Barrow, Baronet, L.L.D., F.R.S., who accompanied Lord Macartney's Embassy to China; who travelled far into the interior of Africa, and who was for forty years (embracing the whole period of the last war), Secretary of the Admiralty. He died in London on the 23rd November, 1848, in the 85th year of his age. Remarkable for the vigour of his mind, as his latter works abundantly testify, and scarcely less remarkable for the activity of his body. SOLI DEO GLORIA.' (Rimmer JS: The Story of Ulverston: Ulverston: 1925-: 26).
Listing NGR: SD2895477634
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460026
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Rimmer, Reverend J S, The Story of Ulverston, (1925), 26
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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