High Oaks
HIGH OAKS, KIRKBY LONSDALE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1384164
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1954
- List Entry Name:
- High Oaks
- Statutory Address:
- HIGH OAKS, KIRKBY LONSDALE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1384164
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1954
- List Entry Name:
- High Oaks
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGH OAKS, KIRKBY LONSDALE 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:
- HIGH OAKS, KIRKBY LONSDALE 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 62707 91076
Details
SEDBERGH
SD69SW KIRKBY LONSDALE ROAD, Marthwaite
162-1/5/383 (East side (off))
16/03/54 High Oaks
II*
House. Dated 1706 on porch (but perhaps earlier and enlarged
at this date); altered. Mixed random rubble (south gable wall
rendered), slate roof. L-plan formed by single-depth 2-unit
main range with broad rear wing (and C19 lean-to added to
north gable).
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and 5 windows, almost symmetrical; with a
continuous stone slate drip-course over both main floors.
Offset slightly left of centre is a single-storey gabled porch
with a cambered wooden lintel to the outer opening, a square
datestone with a sunk panel containing raised lettering "W C /
1706", side benches, and a square-headed inner doorway with a
studded oak plank door furnished with strap hinges and
ornamental handle. Both main floors have square former 2-light
mullioned windows with chamfered reveals but all now lacking
the mullions and furnished with wooden casements: at ground
floor, 2 to the left, a coupled pair to the right and one to
the right of that (a fire-window); and 4 at 1st floor plus a
1-light window to the right. The 2nd floor has three 1-light
windows, symmetrically arranged. Gable chimneys, that to the
right almost square, both with drip-bands carried round. The
left gable wall (which is rendered) has drip-courses on all 3
levels and a 1-light attic window towards the front. The
right-hand gable wall has a large C19 lean-to kitchen with an
oblong multi-pane window; and an attic window like the other.
The gable of the rear wing has a small round-headed cellar
window, 2 vertically-offset square stair-windows and a 2-light
mullioned window above these all offset to the right, a small
attic window offset left, and a gable chimney.
INTERIOR has exceptionally complete set of original features:
entrance hallway formed by original muntin-and-rail panelled
partition to parlour on left (now bowed) and C19 inserted
partition to housepart on right, and an original panelled door
to the rear with wavy splat-balusters in the top. The
housepart has heavy lateral beams including a smokehood
bressumer with a muntin-and-plank heck to the left and part of
an original settle seat attached to this, and a spice-cupboard
to the right with bolection moulding to a panel with raised
lettering "WC / 1706" decorated with scrollwork. The parlour
has a square fireplace with chamfered surround and a panelled
overmantel. The rear wing contains an exceptionally fine
full-height open-well staircase with exposed bearers, closed
string, square newel posts with ball finials, and turned
balusters, at 1st floor a door to the main range like that at
ground floor and at 2nd floor a plank door to the attic
chamber of the wing. The attic has 3 collar trusses (no
tie-beams) carrying 2 pairs of trenched purlins.
HISTORICAL NOTE: home of William Corney (1661-1740), evidently
a money-lender.
(The Sedbergh Historian: Vol.3. No.3. Spring 1994: Cruickshank
WJ: William Corney of the Oaks in Marthwaite).
Listing NGR: SD6270791076
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484596
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cruikshank, WJ, William Corney of the Oaks in Marthwaite, ()
The Sedbergh Historian in The Sedbergh Historian: Volume 3, Number 3, (1994)
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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