The Croft

THE CROFT

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1335630
Date first listed:
30-Jun-1975
List Entry Name:
The Croft
Statutory Address:
THE CROFT

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Date:
2002-08-22
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1335630
Date first listed:
30-Jun-1975
List Entry Name:
The Croft
Statutory Address 1:
THE CROFT

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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE CROFT

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

District:
Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Beaumont
National Grid Reference:
NY 35541 58334

Details

NY 35 NE BEAUMONT Kirkandrews on Eden

6/23 The Croft

30/6/75 II

Farmhouse, now private house. Late C17, with extension to rear dated 1778 and initials W. & B.C. over entrance. Whitewashed cobble and clay walls on chamfered stone plinth; corrugated iron roof covering thatch, brick ridge chimney stacks. Single storey with attic, long low building with steeply pitched roof of cruck construction. Plank door in plain painted stone surround. Sash windows with glazing bars in plain stone surrounds. Small 2-pane attic window in side wall to right. Single-storey extension to rear has dated lintel. Interior has 3 pairs of full crucks. Barn to left in ruinous condition and outbuildings of no interest. See Alcock, Crucks in England and Wales, p104.

Listing NGR: NY3554158334

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Legacy System number:
78208
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Sources

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Alcock, N W, Council for British Archaeology Research Report in Cruck Construction An Introduction And Catalogue, (1981), 104

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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