Whale Cottage and adjoining barn
Whale Cottage, Whale, Penrith, CA10 2PT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1342742
- Date first listed:
- 03-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Whale Cottage and adjoining barn
- Statutory Address:
- Whale Cottage, Whale, Penrith, CA10 2PT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1342742
- Date first listed:
- 03-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Whale Cottage and adjoining barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- Whale Cottage, Whale, Penrith, CA10 2PT
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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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:
- Whale Cottage, Whale, Penrith, CA10 2PT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lowther
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 52178 21500
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 3 June 2025 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
NY 52 SW
12/164
LOWTHER
WHALE
Whale Cottage and adjoining barn
(Formerly listed as Whale Farm Cottage and barn adjoining (in the occupation of Mr & Mrs Wilford))
GV
II
Farmhouse and barn. Mid C18. Mixed sandstone rubble walls partly painted and rendered. Graduated greenslate roof, coped to right, with stone chimney stacks partly rendered. Two storeys, two bays with left three-bay barn of slightly higher roof line. Central C20 door in painted stone surround. Casement windows in original plain reveals. Barn has off-centre segmental cart entrance. Left door and right C20 casement windows in C20 openings. Interior of house retains beamed ceilings. Listed for group value with Whale Cottage.
Listing NGR: NY5217821500
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 74373
- 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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