Description

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD27SW HOLBECK PARK AVENUE
708-1/4/76 (East side)
05/05/78 Former cow house and attached
shelter shed immediately N of
Crofters PH
(Formerly Listed as:
HOLBECK PARK AVENUE
Cattle barns and shelter shed to N
of Holbeck Farmhouse)

GV II

Cow house and shelter shed now disused community centre and
also part of public house. Early C19, altered. Red sandstone
rubble; graduated slate roofs. L-shaped range: 2-storey, 8-bay
cow house attached to 1-storey, 7-bay shelter shed. Cow house:
large quoins; 3 boarded doors and 3 casements under segmental
arches; slit vents and 2 round-arched pitching holes to 1st
floor. Rear: 2 round-arched doors reached by C20 ramp and
stairs. INTERIOR not inspected. Timber-buttressed at time of
survey. Shelter shed: 4 open-fronted bays with monolithic
limestone piers; bay 5 infilled, bays 6 and 7 altered to form
part of Crofters public house (qv). Principal-rafter trusses.
The buildings form part of a planned farm group.

Listing NGR: SD2288770054

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26492309

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)