Spire House
SPIRE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290677
- Date first listed:
- 27-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Spire House
- Statutory Address:
- SPIRE HOUSE
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- Date:
- 1999-09-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/01238/29
- Rights:
- © Dr Bryan C Lindley. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290677
- Date first listed:
- 27-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Spire House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPIRE HOUSE
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:
- SPIRE HOUSE
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:
- NY4628131258
Details
NY 43 SE DACRE GREAT BLENCOW
13/54 Spire House
27.12.67
II
Farmhouse. Early C18 with late C18 folly extension for the 11th Duke of
Norfolk. Cement rendered walls, under Welsh slate roof with coped gables and
left kneeler; banded sandstone ashlar chimney stacks. Extension of dressed pink
sandstone with string course, eaves cornice, battlemented parapets and V-jointed
quoins. Polygonal leaded spire within parapets. 2 storeys, 3 bays with right
projecting polygonal extension. Farmhouse has sash windows, one double on
ground floor and smaller right casement firewindows, all within painted stone
surrounds. Left lean-to has plank door in plain opening. Extension has front
wall canted forward with a central sash window under a pointed-arched sash
window; in flanking parts blind round-headed recesses under twin pointed-head
windows, all in raised stone surrounds. Right return wall has a blind circular
recess. The spire is on a battlemented polygonal base with blind pointed-arched
recess. Rear of the house has C19 extension with plank door, 2- and 3-light
windows, all under hoodmoulds which are continuous on the ground floor. One of
a group of 3 folly farmhouses in the Greystoke area. See Barbara Jones, Follies
& Grottoes, 1974, pp.303-4; Country Life, 30 June 1983, pp.1796-1800. Adjoining
farm buildings are later and not of interest.
Listing NGR: NY4628131258
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 73773
- 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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