Tower Bank House
TOWER BANK HOUSE, B 5285
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1335736
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Tower Bank House
- Statutory Address:
- TOWER BANK HOUSE, B 5285
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1335736
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Tower Bank House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWER BANK HOUSE, B 5285
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:
- TOWER BANK HOUSE, B 5285
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Claife
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 36989 95687
Details
CLAIFE B5285 (North side) SD 39 NE Near Sawrey Tower Bank House 6/44 GV II
House. Early C19. Roughcast stone with slate roofs. 2 storeys, 3 bays, with one-storey recessed gabled bay to left, and 2-storey recessed gabled bay to right. Windows are sashed, those to ground floor with horns, those to 1st floor with glazing bars. Recessed bay to left has round-headed recess with top blocked lunette with intersecting glazing bars; recessed bay to right has 1st floor round-headed sashed window with glazing bars, intersecting to top. Gable-end stacks. Entrance has fanlight and half-glazed door; later gabled porch with reeded angle pilasters. Rear has sashed windows and 2 windows with small-paned fixed glazing with opening lights. Interior has enriched cornices. Property of the National Trust, the gift of Beatrix Potter.
Listing NGR: SD3698995687
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 76719
- 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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