Howbeck Cottages
HOWBECK COTTAGES, 1, 2 AND 3
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1327235
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Howbeck Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- HOWBECK COTTAGES, 1, 2 AND 3
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- Date:
- 2002-09-17
- Reference:
- IOE01/08583/12
- Rights:
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1327235
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Howbeck Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOWBECK COTTAGES, 1, 2 AND 3
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:
- HOWBECK COTTAGES, 1, 2 AND 3
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Caldbeck
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- NY3471038318
Details
NY 33 NW CALDBECK Howbeck
13/102 Howbeck Cottages
(Nos.1, 2 & 3)
II
Friends' Meeting House now 3 cottages. 1729 converted to cottages in 1934.
Painted rendered walls, partly on projecting plinth stones. Welsh slate roof
with lower courses of greenslate and graduated greenslate to rear; rendered
chimney stacks. Single-storey, 5-bay meeting house with single-bay extension to
right under common roof, forming two 2-bay cottages and central single-bay
cottage. Present front wall, originally blank, now has 3 C20 doorways and sash
windows. Rear has sash windows with glazing bars in original painted stone
surrounds. See David Butler, Quaker Meeting Houses of the Lake Counties, 1978
pp76-78, where it is called Gillfoot Meeting House. Lean-to extension to left of
No.3 is not of interest.
Listing NGR: NY3471038318
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 72410
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Butler, D M, Quaker Meeting Houses of the Lake Counties, (1978), 76-78
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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