Low Beckside Farmhouse and Attached Peat House and Barn
LOW BECKSIDE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED PEAT HOUSE AND BARN, CAUTLEY ROAD
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484534
- 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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