BOXTREE FARMHOUSE AND LUPTON TOWER

BOXTREE FARMHOUSE AND LUPTON TOWER, A65

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1311932
Date first listed:: 21-Feb-1989
List Entry Name:: BOXTREE FARMHOUSE AND LUPTON TOWER
Statutory Address:: BOXTREE FARMHOUSE AND LUPTON TOWER, A65

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Date:: 2002-12-19
Reference:: IOE01/09396/32
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1311932
Date first listed:: 21-Feb-1989
List Entry Name:: BOXTREE FARMHOUSE AND LUPTON TOWER
Statutory Address 1:: BOXTREE FARMHOUSE AND LUPTON TOWER, A65

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: BOXTREE FARMHOUSE AND LUPTON TOWER, A65

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

District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lupton
National Grid Reference:: SD 55780 80850

Details

SD 58 SE LUPTON A65 (South side)

15/125 Boxtree Farmhouse and Lupton Tower

G.V. II 2 houses. Late C17 or early C18 with C19 additions. Stone rubble with some ashlar and slate roofs. L-plan with gabled wings to east. East facade of 4 bays with flanking gabled wings. Windows are sashed with single glazing bars and horns, that to 4th bay of ground floor is larger. Entrance has ovolo-moulded reveals and embattled lintel reading "RSA/1720". Cross-axial stack and gable-end stack; wings have gable-end stacks. North return has entrance under pentice. West elevation has outshut under catslide roof. South wing forms Lupton Tower. C19. 3 bays with recessed range to east. 1st bay breaks forward as roughcast 3-storey tower, 3rd bay breaks forward under gable. Tower has projecting embattled parapet with raised angle and roll-moulded coping. 3-light double-chamfered-mullioned windows with label moulds and sashes with glazing bars. Return has 2 windows of 2 lights to each floor. 2nd bay has lean-to porch with gablet over segmental-headed entrance, ball finial. Windows have casements; large bay window to 3rd bay has canted oriel above. Interior has spice cupboard door reading: "RGS/1680". Said to have stair with turned balusters and square newels but this not seen.

Listing NGR: SD5578080850

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Legacy System number:: 75704
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.