Brackenburgh
BRACKENBURGH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290471
- Date first listed:
- 27-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Brackenburgh
- Statutory Address:
- BRACKENBURGH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290471
- Date first listed:
- 27-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Brackenburgh
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRACKENBURGH
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:
- BRACKENBURGH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hesket
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 47587 38417
Details
NY 43 NE HESKET BRACKENBURGH
10/148 Brackenburgh
27.12.67
II
House divided into 2 dwellings. Inscribed and dated with Harris coat-of-arms MY PRINCE AND MY COUNTRY, 1902, by Sir Robert Lorimer for Joseph Harris, with minor 1960 alterations (including demolition of servants' wing). Dressed cream Lazonby sandstone walls with parapets and flush quoins. Graduated greenslate roof with banded ashlar sandstone chimney stacks. Large country house of 2 storeys of numerous bays in L-shape. Garden facade has, left to right: projecting dining room, music room and hall with intervening round-arched loggia in front of boudoir; at right the right-angled office range is now divided off as a separate property. Various large transomed and mullioned windows some of them canted bay windows. Rear entrance facade has high projecting central 5 bays, left billiard room converted to garage and right 3-bay section now blank walls after demolition of projecting wing. Left double plank doors in round arch under crested coat-of-arms, with pilasters carried up to string course and over oriel window with flanking lions, all under a shell hood. Large transomed and mullioned window; further doorways and 2-light windows on 3 levels. Left polygonal angle turret and various mullioned windows on 2 levels. Right wing has 2- and 4-light windows. Orangery connects with The Old Tower. See Christopher Hussey, The Work of Sir Robert Lorimer, 1931, pp.40-1.
Listing NGR: NY4758738417
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 73872
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hussey, C, The Work of Sir Robert Lorimer, (1931), 40-41
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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