Wansfell Holme

WANSFELL HOLME, WINDERMERE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1272007
Date first listed:
15-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:
Wansfell Holme
Statutory Address:
WANSFELL HOLME, WINDERMERE ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1272007
Date first listed:
15-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:
Wansfell Holme
Statutory Address 1:
WANSFELL HOLME, WINDERMERE ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WANSFELL HOLME, WINDERMERE ROAD

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

District:
Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Lakes
National Park:
Lake District
National Grid Reference:
NY 38021 02697

Details

1. 1291A AMBLESIDE WINDERMERE ROAD Wansfell Holme NY 30 SE 10/50 II 2. 1836. Stone rubble, 2 storeys. South front has the centre 3 bays of the ground floor covered by an elaborately ornamented iron and glass sun room with 5 wide pointed arches. The french windows inside have Gothic traceried fanlights. The upper 5 windows are in moulded stone architraves. A gabled wing at each end. Gothic eaves and elaborate cusped bargeboards with finials on carved corner brackets. Tall octagonal chimneys. Entrance front has 5 similar gables, and a gabled porch with Tudor arched entrance with stepped label, 3-light windows at sides, and a ribbed vault with carved boss. Inner door of porch has Gothic cusping. Interior has an early hydraulic lift.

Listing NGR: NY3802102697

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
451912
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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