LOW BIRKS

LOW BIRKS, BIRKS LANE, LA10 5HQ

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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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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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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

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Legacy System number:: 484509
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.