Bunkers Hill and Barns/byres Adjoining
BUNKERS HILL AND BARNS/BYRES ADJOINING
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290653
- Date first listed:
- 27-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Bunkers Hill and Barns/byres Adjoining
- Statutory Address:
- BUNKERS HILL AND BARNS/BYRES ADJOINING
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- Date:
- 1999-10-05
- Reference:
- IOE01/01277/14
- Rights:
- © Dr Bryan C Lindley. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290653
- Date first listed:
- 27-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Bunkers Hill and Barns/byres Adjoining
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUNKERS HILL AND BARNS/BYRES ADJOINING
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:
- BUNKERS HILL AND BARNS/BYRES ADJOINING
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dacre
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 45844 30876
Details
NY 43 SE DACRE GREYSTOKE
13/58 Bunkers Hill and barns/byres adjoining 27.12.67
II
Farmhouse and barn/byres adjoining. Built to commemorate the battle of Bunkers Hill in the American War of Independence so inscribed on front wall BUNKERS HILL JUNE 17TH 1775. Late C18 for the 11th Duke of Norfolk (a supporter of the American cause) with additions dated and inscribed HCH 1890 (Henry Charles Howard). Pink sandstone ashlar walls with string courses and battlemented parapet, with V-jointed quoins. Sloping graduated greenslate roof; banded ashlar chimney stacks some of C20 brick. Barns and byres of dressed red sandstone with raised quoins, under graduated greenslate roofs with coped gables and kneelers. Canted-in house front of 2½ storeys, 3 bays with lower flanking contemporary barns, the extension on the 3rd side forming rough overall U-shape. Pointed-arched sash windows with glazing bars, some double, and smaller similar attic windows. Parapet inscription over carved lion. Flanking barns have large central pointed-arched cart entrances in alternate-block surrounds; that to left of house has a large casement window with glazing bars. Barns have rear plank doorways and casement windows in stone surrounds. Left large C20 sliding doors, blocked loft doorways and pent extension. One of a group of 3 farmhouse follies in the Greystoke area. See Barbara Jones, Follies & Grottoes, 1974, pp.303-4; Country Life, 30 June 1983, 1796-1800.
Listing NGR: NY4584430876
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 73779
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Jones, B, Follies and Grottoes, (1974), 303-4
Country Life in 30 June, (1983), 1796-1800
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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