Former stable range, barn and gin-gang for High Head Castle

Castleside, Ivegill, Carlisle, CA4 0PN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1326709
Date first listed:: 27-Dec-1967
List Entry Name:: Former stable range, barn and gin-gang for High Head Castle
Statutory Address:: Castleside, Ivegill, Carlisle, CA4 0PN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1326709
Date first listed:: 27-Dec-1967
List Entry Name:: Former stable range, barn and gin-gang for High Head Castle
Statutory Address 1:: Castleside, Ivegill, Carlisle, CA4 0PN
Statutory Address 2:: The Archways, The Arches, The Coach House and Courtyard Cottage, High Head Castle, Ivegill, Carlisle, CA4 0PN

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:: Castleside, Ivegill, Carlisle, CA4 0PN
Statutory Address:: The Archways, The Arches, The Coach House and Courtyard Cottage, High Head Castle, Ivegill, Carlisle, CA4 0PN

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

District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Skelton
National Grid Reference:: NY 40220 43373

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23 August 2024 to update the name and address and reformat the text to current standards.

NY 44 SW 5/221

SKELTON HIGH HEAD CASTLE The Archways, The Arches, The Coach House and Courtyard Cottage, and Castleside, Ivegill Former stable range, barn and gin-gang for High Head Castle,

(Formerly listed as The Arches, The Arches Cottage, The Barn and gingang, HIGH HEAD)

27.12.67

GV. II Former stable range, barn and gin-gang for High Head Castle, now five dwellings. Dated 1747 internally with alterations dated 1853 and 1854; further C20 alterations. Front dressed red sandstone walls with ashlar dressings and V-jointed quoins, the rear and side walls of red sandstone rubble. Hipped Welsh slate roof with bottom courses of sandstone slates; sandstone and C20 brick chimney stacks.

Front two storeys, six bays divided by central archway into three-bay houses, with stables and barn around a rear courtyard, built against a bank so that the rear parts are three storeys,and semicircular gin-gang adjoining at lower level beyond barn. Segmental archway, with rusticated ashlar surround and voussoirs, under round patterned window and coped gable with ball finials. Houses have central C20 doors in quoined surrounds under keyed lintels. Sash windows with glazing bars in quoined surrounds under keyed lintels, on bracketed sills. Right return wall has central segmental quoined archway and flanking slit vents at high level, partly blocked at either end for the insertion of C20 windows. Right lower-level C20 panelled door in stone surround. Left return wall has irregular fenestration with windows of three periods on different levels. The lowest part of the wall is off-set with four regularly-spaced doorways and three flat stone-mullioned windows, one with its mullion removed; a left doorway blocked and C20 doorway cut through. Upper floors have small casement windows and tall loft doorway in C19 stone surrounds. Left C20 windows in cement surrounds. Rear wall has similar doorways, slit vents on three levels partly blocked for the insertion of C20 windows in cement surrounds. Adjoining gin-gang is off-centre with its roof removed.

Inner courtyard has some blocked doorways and two-light flat stone-mullioned windows, many with mullions removed. Various segmental archways, one dated 1854. Some C20 garage doors and C20 windows in cement surrounds. Listed for group value with High Head Castle.

Listing NGR: NY4022043373

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Legacy System number:: 73950
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.