Tarn Hows Cottage
TARN HOWS COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1335725
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Tarn Hows Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- TARN HOWS COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1335725
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Tarn Hows Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- TARN HOWS COTTAGE
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:
- TARN HOWS COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Coniston
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 32031 99440
Details
CONISTON SD 39 NW 5/60 Tarn Hows Cottage
II
House with outbuilding and ruins of possibly original house. C17 or early C18, part possibly older. Stone rubble with roughcast to front and slate roof. 2 storeys, 3-bay house with 2-bay outbuilding to right and single-storey bay to left. Dripcourses to ground floor windows. Windows are sashed with glazing bars; 1st bay of ground floor has 2-light wood-mullioned fire window. Large gabled porch. 1st bay of outbuilding roughcast; garage door with slated lintel; 2nd bay stone with small entrance, slated lintel. Bay to left has entrance. Cross-axial stack and gable-end stack. Rear has gabled wing with dripcourses; casement windows and entrance. Ruins to right have low wall to front with entrance and signs of blocked window. Gable-end of outbuilding shows roof line of former building, and,has large stone smoke hood with stepped sides and chamfered timber bressummer. Interior has chamfered beams. Property of The National Trust.
Listing NGR: SD3203199440
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 76766
- 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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