Abbey Shop Abbeytown Library
ABBEY SHOP
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1327156
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Shop Abbeytown Library
- Statutory Address:
- ABBEY SHOP
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1327156
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Shop Abbeytown Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBEY SHOP
- Statutory Address 2:
- ABBEYTOWN LIBRARY
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:
- ABBEY SHOP
- Statutory Address:
- ABBEYTOWN LIBRARY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Holme Abbey
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 17692 50799
Details
NY 15 SE HOLME ABBEY Abbeytown
6/12 Abbey Shop and Abbeytown Library
G.V. II
Parish rooms now shop and Library. Late C19 with 1973 alterations, incorporating part of the guest house of Holme Cultram Abbey. Squared blocks of red sandstone in irregular courses. Graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and kneelers; stone chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 4 bays, with single-bay extension to left under common roof; angled single-storey passage extension to right, joining with the porch of the former Abbey, is listed with Church of St Mary. Plank doors in stone surrounds. Hollow-chamfered 2-light stone mullioned windows. Shop extension has C20 windows including large shop window in end wall left. Rear wall of library has part of a chamfered plinth and lower courses of earlier stonework which could have been a building in the outer court of the Abbey. Listed partly for G.V. with Church of St Mary.
Listing NGR: NY1769250799
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 71963
- 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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