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Latitude: 54.7894 / 54°47'21"N
Longitude: -2.3401 / 2°20'24"W
OS Eastings: 378224
OS Northings: 543886
OS Grid: NY782438
Mapcode National: GBR DF31.5X
Mapcode Global: WH91X.0WX8
Plus Code: 9C6VQMQ5+QW
Entry Name: Former Powder Magazine 150 Metres South West of Chapel Houses
Listing Date: 7 November 1989
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1144925
English Heritage Legacy ID: 73238
ID on this website: 101144925
Location: Nenthead, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, CA9
County: Cumbria
District: Eden
Civil Parish: Alston Moor
Traditional County: Cumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria
Church of England Parish: Alston Moor
Church of England Diocese: Newcastle
Tagged with: Architectural structure
The following building shall be added
NY 74 SE ALSTON MOOR NENTHEAD
7/82 Former Powder Magazine
150 metres South West
of Chapel Houses
II
Farmbuilding, originally a gunpowder magazine belonging to the London
Lead Company. Probably early C19. Coursed rubble with stone flag
pyramidal roof. Square plan, with inserted cross wall (and later
temporary farm shelters abutting). Single original doorway in walls
18"-20" thick: small windows look later, probably made by enlarging
ventilation slits. Massively constructed roof with central post
supported by cross ties, raked struts to alternate principals, corner
ties, and substantial wall plates. Flag floor 2 later doorways
associated with its post-industrial use as a cattle/sheep shed. Note:
a deed of 1782 records the conveyance of a magazine to the London Lead
Company (which dominated Nenthead); the present building probably post-
dates the company's acquisition.
Listing NGR: NY7822443886
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