Thwaite Farmhouse
THWAITE FARMHOUSE, HOWGILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384158
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Thwaite Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- THWAITE FARMHOUSE, HOWGILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384158
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Thwaite Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- THWAITE FARMHOUSE, HOWGILL LANE
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:
- THWAITE FARMHOUSE, HOWGILL LANE
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 62900 94788
Details
SEDBERGH
SD69SW HOWGILL LANE, Howgill
162-1/5/370 (West side (off))
Thwaite Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Mainly early C18, with one bay which may be
earlier; altered. White-painted roughcast on rubble, roof of
green slate upper courses and stone slate lower courses, with
slobbered rubble chimneys. Single-depth linear plan of 3
elements on north-south axis, the main range of 3 unequal
bays, with an earlier bay at the north end and a peat-house
built into higher ground at the south end.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys 1:3:1 windows. The main range, slightly
higher than the ends and almost symmetrical, has a C20 gabled
porch offset slightly right, a 12-pane sashed window above
this, and 2 square 16-pane sashes on each floor, all these
windows with exposed boxes and hornless. Gable chimneys with
pitched slate weather courses (and that to the left broader
than the other). The earlier bay to the left has a doorway
with plain reveal next to the junction, one square window on
each floor to the left (a 6-pane tilting casement at ground
floor and a 12-pane fixed window above), and a gable chimney.
The peat-house to the right has a doorway (to a through
passage beside the gable wall of the main range) with C20
door, and a 9-pane window above. Rear: irregular fenestration
to the main range (mostly the northern half) including a
stairwindow with 2 wooden mullions and 2 horizontal glazing
bars making 9 panes, a small 6-pane fixed window below and
left of this, both these windows with slate drip-bands, and a
very small 4-pane window to the right (perhaps a fire-window);
prominent gabled porch to north bay, protecting
batten-and-board door.
INTERIOR: lateral passage from front door to staircase;
quarter-turn staircase with closed string, square newels and
turned balusters, and beside this an old panelled door to a
pantry under the stairs; former housepart in north bay has
covered beam approx. 2 metres from north gable wall, and the
room above this (now partitioned axially) has a large
"beef-box" approx. 0.5 metre high.
Very picturesque and probably ancient site overlooking bend in
River Lune ("thwaite" derived from Old Norse, denoting a
clearing).
Listing NGR: SD6290094788
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484590
- 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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