Description

NY 21 SE BORROWDALE ROSTHWAITE

20/50 Longthwaite Farmhouse and adjoining barn 3.3.67 II

Farmhouse and adjoining barn. Mid C17. Whitewashed rendered walls on boulder plinth, under graduated greenslate roof with rebuilt slate chimney stacks. Barn of slate and cobble rubble. 2 storeys, 3 bays with barn to left under common roof. Plank door within C17 gabled stone porch with side seats. Casement windows with glazing bars, and to left of porch a sash with glazing bars, all in plain reveals. Barn has front plank double doors and rear recessed doorway. One C17 wooden mullioned window. Interior of house has beamed ground-floor ceilings and a built-in court cupboard inscribed and dated G. & M.W. 1691 (Gawine & Mary Wren). Court cupboard illustrated in, Shelagh Sutton, The story of Borrowdale, 1974, p14.

Listing NGR: NY2554214367

External Links

• Wikidata Q26437548

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