Castlerigg Hall Farmhouse
CASTLERIGG HALL FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1327193
- Date first listed:
- 08-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Castlerigg Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLERIGG HALL FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1327193
- Date first listed:
- 08-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Castlerigg Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CASTLERIGG HALL FARMHOUSE
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:
- CASTLERIGG HALL FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. John's Castlerigg and Wythburn
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 28216 22535
Details
NY 22 SE ST JOHNS CASTLERIGG & WYTHBURN CASTLERIGG
12/89 Castlerigg Hall Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Early C17 with mid C17 extension. Painted roughcast walls, partly on large boulder plinth. Graduated greenslate roof with large square central C17 stone chimney stack and 2 smaller original chimney stacks on extension. 2 storeys, 4 bays with left rear lower right-angled 4-bay extension. Oldest part, facing road, has Yorkshire sash windows with glazing bars and small central upper-floor firewindow, all in plain reveals. Rear has small irregularly spaced C20 windows in plain reveals. Extension has boarded door in plain opening. Casement windows, some with fixed panes, over larger ground-floor Yorkshire-sash window. Smaller upper-floor right firewindow. Interior of oldest part has 2 blocked inglenooks on either side of the large central chimney stack. Extension interior has beamed ground-floor ceiling, inglenook with firebeam and heck partition. Spice-cupboard door dated 1648 was removed from extension inglenook in a rotten condition. Known as How Place in the 1640's, according to deeds in the owner's possession. Ancestral home of the Wren family. Further courtyard extension and adjoining barn are not of interest.
Listing NGR: NY2821622535
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 72174
- 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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