Town Head Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn

TOWN HEAD FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING BARN, OLD TEBAY, CA10 3ST

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1326773
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
Town Head Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn
Statutory Address:
TOWN HEAD FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING BARN, OLD TEBAY, CA10 3ST

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1326773
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
Town Head Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn
Statutory Address 1:
TOWN HEAD FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING BARN, OLD TEBAY, CA10 3ST

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
TOWN HEAD FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING BARN, OLD TEBAY, CA10 3ST

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

District:
Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Tebay
National Grid Reference:
NY 61763 05130

Details

NY 60 NW,1
3/186

TEBAY,
OLD TEBAY,
Town Head farmhouse & adjoining barn

II

Farmhouse and barn. 2 builds: House dated 1705, with initials G. P. & E. P., on
(reset?) lintel to porch; house extended and barn added later in C18. Later
additions and alterations. Coursed rubble with quoins; farmyard elevation
pebble-dashed, other elevation colour-washed. Graduated slate roofs.
2 storeys, 4 bays overall (3:1). Farmyard elevation was originally rear of
house: Central wing with part-glazed inner door to porch on left and C20
lean-to outbuilding (not of interest) on right; small casements to each floor of
wing on left-hand return. Original house front has C20 casement (in original
surround) with blocked mullioned window, C19 sash, and C19 casement (both with
glazing bars) to left; continuous hoodmould to 2 right-hand bays. Three C20
casements above. Single-bay barn has segment-headed plank wagon door to
farmyard elevation, with outshut to right, and small door to rear. Rendered
mid-chimney; capped, corbelled end chimney to wing. Taller barn and C20
outbuildings adjoining not of interest.


Listing NGR: NY6176305130

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
74200
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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