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Latitude: 54.6735 / 54°40'24"N
Longitude: -2.8345 / 2°50'4"W
OS Eastings: 346281
OS Northings: 531258
OS Grid: NY462312
Mapcode National: GBR 8GND.4G
Mapcode Global: WH813.FSGL
Plus Code: 9C6VM5F8+C5
Entry Name: Spire House
Listing Date: 27 December 1967
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1290677
English Heritage Legacy ID: 73773
ID on this website: 101290677
Location: Clickem, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, CA11
County: Cumbria
District: Eden
Civil Parish: Dacre
Traditional County: Cumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria
Church of England Parish: Dacre St Andrew
Church of England Diocese: Carlisle
Tagged with: House
NY 43 SE DACRE GREAT BLENCOW
13/54 Spire House
27.12.67
II
Farmhouse. Early C18 with late C18 folly extension for the 11th Duke of
Norfolk. Cement rendered walls, under Welsh slate roof with coped gables and
left kneeler; banded sandstone ashlar chimney stacks. Extension of dressed pink
sandstone with string course, eaves cornice, battlemented parapets and V-jointed
quoins. Polygonal leaded spire within parapets. 2 storeys, 3 bays with right
projecting polygonal extension. Farmhouse has sash windows, one double on
ground floor and smaller right casement firewindows, all within painted stone
surrounds. Left lean-to has plank door in plain opening. Extension has front
wall canted forward with a central sash window under a pointed-arched sash
window; in flanking parts blind round-headed recesses under twin pointed-head
windows, all in raised stone surrounds. Right return wall has a blind circular
recess. The spire is on a battlemented polygonal base with blind pointed-arched
recess. Rear of the house has C19 extension with plank door, 2- and 3-light
windows, all under hoodmoulds which are continuous on the ground floor. One of
a group of 3 folly farmhouses in the Greystoke area. See Barbara Jones, Follies
& Grottoes, 1974, pp.303-4; Country Life, 30 June 1983, pp.1796-1800. Adjoining
farm buildings are later and not of interest.
Listing NGR: NY4628131258
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