Skelcies Farmhouse With Adjoining Cottage, Barn, Wagon Shed and Area Walls, Gate Piers, and Railings
SKELCIES FARMHOUSE WITH ADJOINING COTTAGE, BARN, WAGON SHED AND AREA WALLS, GATE PIERS, AND RAILINGS, B6259 (NORTH OF KIRKBY STEPHEN)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1327008
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Skelcies Farmhouse With Adjoining Cottage, Barn, Wagon Shed and Area Walls, Gate Piers, and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- SKELCIES FARMHOUSE WITH ADJOINING COTTAGE, BARN, WAGON SHED AND AREA WALLS, GATE PIERS, AND RAILINGS, B6259 (NORTH OF KIRKBY STEPHEN)
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- Date:
- 2002-09-07
- Reference:
- IOE01/08907/18
- Rights:
- © Mr R. Ian Campbell. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1327008
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Skelcies Farmhouse With Adjoining Cottage, Barn, Wagon Shed and Area Walls, Gate Piers, and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- SKELCIES FARMHOUSE WITH ADJOINING COTTAGE, BARN, WAGON SHED AND AREA WALLS, GATE PIERS, AND RAILINGS, B6259 (NORTH OF KIRKBY STEPHEN)
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:
- SKELCIES FARMHOUSE WITH ADJOINING COTTAGE, BARN, WAGON SHED AND AREA WALLS, GATE PIERS, AND RAILINGS, B6259 (NORTH OF KIRKBY STEPHEN)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Winton
- National Grid Reference:
- NY7709211791
Details
NY 71 SE
WINTON
B6259 (north of
Kirkby Stephen,
east side)
8/133
12.9.57
Skelcies Farmhouse
with adjoining
cottage, barn, wagon
shed & area walls,
gate piers, &
railings
G.V. II
House and cottage of 2 builds. Cottage door lintel initialled and dated C.H.
E.H., M.H. D.H. 1674; house probably 1813 (date on rainwater head), of sandstone
blocks with rusticated quoins on chamfered plinth under hipped, graduated slate
roof. Cottage set back on left; incised stucco under graduated stone-flagged
roof with stone coping and kneelers. Corniced stone chimneys. 2 storeys.
Symmetrical 3-bay house front has part-glazed door and semicircular fanlight in
architrave with Tuscan pilasters supporting broken pediment; sashes in stone
surrounds, 24-pane to ground floor and 16-pane to 1st. 2-bay cottage has single
sash with glazing bars in stone surround to each floor; panelled door in stone
surround to right has inscription to dated lintel:CAVSE:THY:BLESSING.O.LORD.TO.
REST.IN.THIS.HOVSE.EZE.cH.44.30: THE .LORD.BLESSETH.THE.HABITATION.OF.THE.IVST.
PRO:3.33.AND: THE.HOVSE.OF.THE.RIGHTEOVS.SHALL.STAND: PRO:V:12:7. Outbuildings
of coursed rubble under graduated stone-flagged roofs. Barn adjoining rear of
house has blocked door on south side with initialled and dated lintel: M.R.
1760; C20 opening in east return. Early C19 single-storey wagon shed adjoins
rear of cottage; 2 elliptical-headed wagon arches with central cylindrical
pier. Early Cl9 area walls and railings to front of house and cottage. Walls
c2 ft high of sandstone blocks with segmental copings; quadrant with central
gate to front of house. Rusticated gate piers, square in plan, with ogee tops.
Wrought-iron railings and gates have diagonally-set pointed standards.
Listing NGR: NY7709211791
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 73419
- 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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