13-20, Lowther Village

13-20, LOWTHER VILLAGE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1326823
Date first listed:: 06-Feb-1968
List Entry Name:: 13-20, Lowther Village
Statutory Address:: 13-20, LOWTHER VILLAGE

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Date:: 2002-11-23
Reference:: IOE01/08628/13
Rights:: © Mr F. Michael Jones. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1326823
Date first listed:: 06-Feb-1968
Date of most recent amendment:: 03-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: 13-20, Lowther Village
Statutory Address 1:: 13-20, LOWTHER VILLAGE

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:: 13-20, LOWTHER VILLAGE

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

District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lowther
National Park:: LAKE DISTRICT
National Grid Reference:: NY5361323678

Details

NY 52 SW 12/149 6.2.68

LOWTHER LOWTHER VILLAGE Nos 13-20 consecutive(formerly listed as Nos 17-27)

GII* Eight houses.1766-73 by Robert Adam as estate houses for Sir James Lowther,part of a model village which was never completed.Mixed sandstone rubble walls,under hipped graduated greenslate roofs with banded incised rendered chimney stacks.Built in open courtyard plan with houses on three sides of a square turned back at right-angles at each end."Palace" facade closing courtyard two storeys,seven bays;remainder single storey,numerous bays.Two-storey range has three-bay recessed centre and flanking gabled wings.Two off-centre plank doors in plain openings with red sandstone lintels.C20 casement windows in original plain reveals with red sandstone lintels and sills.Single-storeyed parts were originally divided into many more houses,the doors of which have been blocked,some only partly to form windows.Otherwise plank doors and C20 casement windows in plain reveals.HBC grant aided in 1965.

Listing NGR: NY5361323678

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Legacy System number:: 74358
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Brunskill, R W , Lowther Village and Robert Adam
'Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society' in Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, , Vol. 14, (), 57-73

Legal

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