Fountain Head and Adjoining Barn
FOUNTAIN HEAD AND ADJOINING BARN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366626
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Fountain Head and Adjoining Barn
- Statutory Address:
- FOUNTAIN HEAD AND ADJOINING BARN
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/07820/29
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366626
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Fountain Head and Adjoining Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- FOUNTAIN HEAD AND ADJOINING BARN
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:
- FOUNTAIN HEAD AND ADJOINING BARN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dalston
- National Grid Reference:
- NY3617948297
Details
NY 34 NE DALSTON Hawkesdale
10/136 Fountain Head and
adjoining barn
II
House and adjoining former house, now barn. Probably late C16 with additions
dated 1633, with initials I.H, E.H., and C19 alterations. Whitewashed red
sandstone random rubble with flush quoins; graduated sandstone slate roof with
coped gable and kneeler to right; C20 brick chimney stacks. 2-storey, 3-bay
original house; 2-storey, 2-bay C17 extension under common roof. Original house
has large projecting cart entrance to right. Ground floor 3-light
stone-mullioned window in chamfered surround to left; similar window above has
been blocked. Rear wall has two 2-light stone-mullioned windows, partly
blocked. Similar upper floor window and 3 smaller original windows now all
blocked. Extension has C20 door in chamfered surround with dated and inscribed
lintel. 2-pane sash windows in C19 painted stone surrounds, top right window
with glazing bars. C19 outshut to rear has C20 casement windows. Edward
Fountain married Elizabeth Senhouse, a relative of the Bishop of Carlisle, in
1632 and perhaps moved from the house at that date. See Transactions Cumberland
& Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, old series, vol vii, p162.
C19 barn extension to left and C20 brick outshut are not of interest.
Listing NGR: NY3617948297
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 78322
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Vol. 7, (), 162
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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