Description

NY 14 SE BLENNERHASSET & TORPENHOW

5/7 Low Wood Rook and
former stables

II

House and stables used in C19 as inn. Dated and inscribed over entrance J. &
E.A. (Addison) 1663; with extensive C18 alterations and additions. Painted
rendered walls on chamfered plinth under graduated greenslate roof with coped
gables and stone chimney stacks. 2 storeys with attic, 2 bays with lower 2-bay
extension and stables under common roof to left. c20 door in original C17
surround under inscribed lintel with hoodmould dated on the label stops. Double
sash windows in late C18 painted stone surrounds. Central pointed attic window
is now boarded. Extension has sash windows in painted stone surrounds, those on
upper floor with glazing bars. Former stable has plank door and casement
windows, some boarded, all in painted stone surrounds. Birthplace of Thomas
Addison, later of London, who gave the ceiling for Torpenhow Church in 1689 and
was a relative of Joseph Addison the essayist, see C.R. Hudleston & R.S.
Boumphrey, Cumberland Families & Heraldry, 1978, pl.

Listing NGR: NY1931040556

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26437479

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