Whale Cottage and adjoining barn

Whale Cottage, Whale, Penrith, CA10 2PT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1342742
Date first listed:: 03-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: Whale Cottage and adjoining barn
Statutory Address:: Whale Cottage, Whale, Penrith, CA10 2PT

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Date:: 2007-08-03
Reference:: IOE01/16699/16
Rights:: © Mr David H. Brown. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1342742
Date first listed:: 03-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: Whale Cottage and adjoining barn
Statutory Address 1:: Whale Cottage, Whale, Penrith, CA10 2PT

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 74373
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.