OLD STABLES APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES NORTH EAST OF LEVENS HALL, COTTAGES ATTACHED TO NORTH WEST AND SOUTH; AND GATE PIERS ATTACHED TO NORTH EAST CORNER AND WALLS

OLD STABLES APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES NORTH EAST OF LEVENS HALL, COTTAGES ATTACHED TO NORTH WEST AND SOUTH; AND GATE PIERS ATTACHED TO NORTH EAST CORNER AND WALLS, A6

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1318992
Date first listed:: 21-Nov-1952
List Entry Name:: OLD STABLES APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES NORTH EAST OF LEVENS HALL, COTTAGES ATTACHED TO NORTH WEST AND SOUTH; AND GATE PIERS ATTACHED TO NORTH EAST CORNER AND WALLS
Statutory Address:: OLD STABLES APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES NORTH EAST OF LEVENS HALL, COTTAGES ATTACHED TO NORTH WEST AND SOUTH; AND GATE PIERS ATTACHED TO NORTH EAST CORNER AND WALLS, A6

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Date:: 2005-05-18
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1318992
Date first listed:: 21-Nov-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 16-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: OLD STABLES APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES NORTH EAST OF LEVENS HALL, COTTAGES ATTACHED TO NORTH WEST AND SOUTH; AND GATE PIERS ATTACHED TO NORTH EAST CORNER AND WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: OLD STABLES APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES NORTH EAST OF LEVENS HALL, COTTAGES ATTACHED TO NORTH WEST AND SOUTH; AND GATE PIERS ATTACHED TO NORTH EAST CORNER AND WALLS, A6

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:: OLD STABLES APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES NORTH EAST OF LEVENS HALL, COTTAGES ATTACHED TO NORTH WEST AND SOUTH; AND GATE PIERS ATTACHED TO NORTH EAST CORNER AND WALLS, A6

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

District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Levens
National Grid Reference:: SD 49587 85150

Details

SD 48 NE LEVENS A6 (West side)

1/26 Old stables approx 50m North-East of 21.11.52. Levens Hall (q.v.), cottages attached to North-West and South; and gate piers attached to North-East Corner - (formerly listed as part of Levens Hall with old stables and entrance gate piers) and walls.

G.V. II*

Former stables, now houses, attached cottages, walls and gate piers. Probably mid C16 with late C17 remodelling; cottages added to North-West and South; converted to houses mid C20. Stone rubble walls with sandstone dressings. steeply-pitched graduated greenslate roof with stone ridge; and chimneys with paired or single round shafts. 2 storeys. Entrance front (to East): 8 windows, irregular, 2- and 3-light casements with chamfered stone mullions; 4 board doors in chamfered stone surrounds. Garden front: 8 windows, irregular, mostly 2-, 3- or 4-light casements with leaded glazing and chamfered stone mullions, some C20. Original vent slits to upper storey, glazed C20 door in corniced moulded surround. Gate piers part octagonal with moulded shafts surmounted by ball finials and flanked by semicircular-headed blank niches. See R.C.H.M. p155.

Listing NGR: SD4958785150

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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.