Former Farmhouse and Attached Barn
FORMER FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN, OLD BRANT RAKE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318889
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jul-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Former Farmhouse and Attached Barn
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN, OLD BRANT RAKE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318889
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jul-1990
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Former Farmhouse and Attached Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN, OLD BRANT RAKE
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:
- FORMER FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN, OLD BRANT RAKE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Eskdale
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 14848 98768
Details
SD 19 NW ESKDALE BRANT RAKE
18/94 Former farmhouse and attached barn.
II
The address shall be amended to read;
SD 19 NW ESKDALE OLD BRANT RAKE
18/94 Former farmhouse and attached barn.
II
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SD 19 NW ESKDALE BRANT RAKE
18/94 Former farmhouse and attached barn.
II
House (unoccupied June 1990) with barn attached to left. C17 with later alterations, the C19 barn containing re-used C16 cruck trusses. Random rubble; diminishing slate roof (large C19 slates to house, re-used smaller slates to barn), sandstone ridge. 2 storeys. 2-unit, through - panage house with a later C17 rear outshut that contains the stairs. House: regular 3-window range, all windows with small-paned part- opening casements, those to the 1st floor with timber lintels, those to the ground floor (and including doorway) with rough stone cambered arches. Planked door. End stacks. Right return plain with a low buttress (added). Rear of house with outshut that does not extend the full length of the house, under catslide roof with 2 late - C17 oak mullioned windows. The outshut partly blocks one of the original rear windows of the house. Vertical masonry points between house and barn; latter with 2 doorways under flat lintels and a wagon entrance under cambered arch, and 2 slit ventilators to upper floor. Plain walling to rear (with single small opening).
Interior: Stone wall divides the 2 rooms at ground floor level. Right- hand room fireplace with sandstone surround and remains of C19 cast-iron grate and a complete rubble fire-hood (visible 1st floor); brick-lined bread-oven to right of fireplace, recessed open shelving to left. Unchamfered ceiling beams. Roof with trenched purlins, ridge piece, principal rafters and tie beams.
The barn is understood to contain re-used crucks (possibly from an earlier house on the site).
Listing NGR: SD1484898768
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 351974
- 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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