Low Birks
LOW BIRKS, BIRKS LANE, LA10 5HQ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384077
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Low Birks
- Statutory Address:
- LOW BIRKS, BIRKS LANE, LA10 5HQ
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384077
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Oct-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Low Birks
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOW BIRKS, BIRKS LANE, LA10 5HQ
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:
- LOW BIRKS, BIRKS LANE, LA10 5HQ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sedbergh
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 65152 91437
Details
SD 6591,
162-1/20/275
SEDBERGH,
BIRKS LANE (East side),
Low Birks
(Formerly Listed as: BIRKS LANE Rawthey Cottage, Low Birks and barn attached to south end of Low Birks)
14/06/84
GV
II
Millworkers' cottages with attached stable, now house and
cottage. 1762 (dated at 1st floor); facade largely rebuilt and
former stable remodelled and integrated with house in 1980.
Coursed mixed rubble with quoins at junction with cottage to
left (former quoins at junction with stable to right removed
during rebuilding), stone slate roof. The house is 1 "-depth
and two units, the cottage to the left also two units, and the
former stable to the right 1 unit.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, now 2+2:1 windows. The original house is
symmetrical, with a slate band over the ground floor; the
doorway and flanking windows have shallow triangular-arched
heads with rubble voussoirs, the windows at 1st floor have
straight stone lintels, and all these windows are now 2-light
casements with glazing bars (replacing former
horizontal-sliding sashes). In the centre of the 1st floor is
a re-set date stone lettered "H / C E / 1762". Chimneys at both
original gables. The cottage to the left has a gabled porch
flanked by 2 casement windows with altered glazing windows on
each floor. The former stable to the right now has a 2-light
casement with glazing bars on each floor. Rear: house has
central stair-window flanked by 2 windows on reach floor.
INTERIOR: despite radical rebuilding of the front wall,
retains most original features of interest, including a
fireplace with corbelled lintel in the rear right-hand room,
built-in C18 cupboards in both front rooms, staircase with
muntin-and-plank side panelling, doors at 1st floor with
fielded panels, and 2 pegged collar trusses in the roof.
Listing NGR: SD6515291437
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484509
- 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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