LOW BECKSIDE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED PEAT HOUSE AND BARN

LOW BECKSIDE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED PEAT HOUSE AND BARN, CAUTLEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1384102
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:: LOW BECKSIDE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED PEAT HOUSE AND BARN
Statutory Address:: LOW BECKSIDE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED PEAT HOUSE AND BARN, CAUTLEY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1384102
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1984
Date of most recent amendment:: 18-Oct-1999
List Entry Name:: LOW BECKSIDE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED PEAT HOUSE AND BARN
Statutory Address 1:: LOW BECKSIDE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED PEAT HOUSE AND BARN, CAUTLEY ROAD

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 BECKSIDE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED PEAT HOUSE AND BARN, CAUTLEY ROAD

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 69284 95569

Details

SEDBERGH

SD69NE CAUTLEY ROAD 162-1/2/296 (West side (off)) 14/06/84 Low Beckside Farmhouse and attached peat-house and barn (Formerly Listed as: CAUTLEY ROAD Low Beckside)

GV II

Farmhouse with attached peat-house and barn. Probably late C17 (contains court-cupboard dated 1683), enlarged to rear in C19, and altered. House is cement-washed rubble with quoins, graduated blue slate roof with stone riggings and stone gable coping to right. Single-depth 2-unit plan on north-south axis, facing east, with continuous addition to rear; peat-house and barn attached to south end. EXTERIOR: 2 low storeys, 2 windows, almost symmetrical, with a stone-slate drip-course over the ground floor. In the centre, an added single-storey gabled porch with a square-headed outer opening, a splayed peep-hole in the left side and stone side benches, protects a Tudor-arched inner doorway with a double-layered plank door; to the left is a small square 4-pane sashed window, to the right a large square 3-light window (early C20), and at 1st floor above these are 2 square 16-pane hornless sashes; and there are 2 smaller blocked windows at 1st floor, one offset right above the porch and the other to the right of the 2nd window, both with wooden lintels. Offset left above the porch is a square recess as if for a datestone. Ridge chimney at junction to left, gable chimney to right. C19 addition to rear. Peat-house continues to left, and small barn is attached to this. INTERIOR: stone lateral partition wall to left of doorway, and built into this a carved court cupboard with initials "I F" (= Isobel Fawcett) and date 1683; C19 panelled partition to housepart on right, which has 2 roughly-chamfered lateral beams approx. 2m apart, that to the right with a pair of gun-rings and that to left with fitted shelves on both sides (for cheeses); spice-cupboard to right of chimney breast, and in front wall to right of this a C19 cupboard built into former fire-window opening; bacon-hooks in ceiling.

Listing NGR: SD6928495569

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Legacy System number:: 484534
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.