THE SQUARE CAFE, HILLSIDE AND AITKEN HOUSE

THE SQUARE CAFE, HILLSIDE AND AITKEN HOUSE, THE SQUARE, LA20 6JA

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1335975
Date first listed:: 05-Mar-1990
List Entry Name:: THE SQUARE CAFE, HILLSIDE AND AITKEN HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE SQUARE CAFE, HILLSIDE AND AITKEN HOUSE, THE SQUARE, LA20 6JA

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Date:: 2002-04-07
Reference:: IOE01/06419/12
Rights:: © Mr Charles M. O'Connell. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1335975
Date first listed:: 05-Mar-1990
List Entry Name:: THE SQUARE CAFE, HILLSIDE AND AITKEN HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE SQUARE CAFE, HILLSIDE AND AITKEN HOUSE, THE SQUARE, LA20 6JA

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: THE SQUARE CAFE, HILLSIDE AND AITKEN HOUSE, THE SQUARE, LA20 6JA

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

District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Broughton West
National Park:: LAKE DISTRICT
National Grid Reference:: SD2120687616

Details

SD 2187, 23/63

BROUGHTON WEST, BROUGHTON-IN-FURNESS, The Square (north-west side), The Square Cafe, Hillside and Aitken House

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3 houses, one now part cafe. Probably c1760. For Gilpin Sawrey. Roughcast stone with slate roof. 2 storeys, 5 bays, but 5th bay of 3 storeys. Windows are mostly sashed, some with vertical glazing bars; ground floor has casement window to 1st bay and bay window with hipped roof to 2nd bay. Entrance to The Square Cafe up steps with lean-to canopy, basement entrance to left. Entrances have half-glazed doors. Gable-end stacks and 2 cross-axial stacks. The Square Cafe has stair with Chinese pattern balustrade and 2-panel doors with some H-L hinges. Built as part of planned town square, an unusual feature in a Cumbrian village.

Listing NGR: SD2120687616

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Legacy System number:: 75834
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.