Mire House
MIRE HOUSE, CAUTLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1384111
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Mire House
- Statutory Address:
- MIRE HOUSE, CAUTLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1384111
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Oct-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Mire House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MIRE HOUSE, 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:
- MIRE HOUSE, 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 69151 94276
Details
SEDBERGH
SD69SE CAUTLEY ROAD
162-1/6/305 (East side (off))
14/06/84 Mire House
(Formerly Listed as:
CAUTLEY ROAD
(East side)
Mire House and barn to north-east)
GV II*
Farmhouse, with added cottage, now all one dwelling. C17,
altered and remodelled in mid to later C18, with additions
(including cottage). Roughly-coursed mixed rubble with quoins
(front outshut painted white), graduated stone slate roof with
blue slates in the top courses. Linear single-depth plan on
east-west axis facing north, with additions to front and rear:
2-unit house (probably formerly with end baffle-entry) with
added rear outshut containing staircase and dairy, plus 2
service bays added at east end and front outshut added to
these; cottage added at west end.
EXTERIOR: 2 low storeys, 1:2:1 windows, with quoined vertical
joint to cottage. The front of the main range, remodelled in
the C18 to achieve a symmetrical effect, has a
segmental-headed doorway in the centre, with rubble voussoirs,
a fielded panelled door and an almost semicircular canopy on a
pair of long shaped brackets (now supported by added posts).
Left of the doorway are remains of a former mullioned window,
broken by a segmental-headed 20-pane hornless sashed window
with rubble voussoirs, right of it a small 4-pane sashed
window, and at 1st floor 2 similarly small sashes (12 and 4
panes). Corniced ridge chimneys at junctions with additions to
left and right. To the left a full-height lean-to (covering a
former 2-light mullioned window at 1st floor) has a doorway to
the right, a renewed 2-light casement to the left and a
round-headed 9-pane fixed window in the re-entrant side.
Cottage to right has narrow doorway and 9-pane fixed window
(with one opening pane) just above. East gable has flat-roofed
C20 addition; west gable (of cottage) has through-stones on 3
levels and 2-light mullioned window on each floor. Rear: wide
full-height outshut (covering most of original main range and
part of addition to east) has 2-light flush-mullioned window
near east end; various small sashed windows to all 3 portions.
INTERIOR: ground floor has 3 lateral beams, the 1st boxed, the
2nd with mortices of former joists and an inserted beam over
it, and the 3rd has mortices of a muntin-and-plank panelled
partition which has been re-located eastwards; "cat-malison"
cupboards attached to 1st beam and to top of panelled
partition, and numerous bacon hooks in ceiling to left of 1st
beam; large C18 stone fireplace in left room (thus formed),
built-in cupboard in rear wall with fielded panel doors, and
the top of a similar cupboard over a bureau of later date
built into alcove to left of fireplace; 2 pairs of gun-rings
in ceiling of kitchen; dog-legged stone staircase with 2
turned balusters per tread and moulded handrail; 2 C18
principal-rafter roof trusses with collars of light scantling
and added tie-beams.
Forms group with barn to north-east (qv).
Listing NGR: SD6915194276
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484543
- 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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