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HAVERTHWAITE HAVERTHWAITE
SD 38 SW
9/79 Haverthwaite House
25.3.70 and Cottage

G.V. II

House, now 2 houses. Fireplace dated 1734. Roughcast stone with slate roofs.
2 storeys, 5 bays, the Cottage of 2 bays, recessed and lower. Windows are
sashed with single glazing bars, most with horns. Central entrance has 6-panel
door, 2 flush, 2 fielded, 2 glazed; flat canopy on shaped brackets. Gable-end
stacks. Cottage has casement windows and plain entrance; tall gable-end stack.
Rear has casement windows; stair windows have wooden cross-mullioned frames,
part of lower and all of upper windows have leaded glazing with rectangular
quarries. Interior has partition to right of entrance with fielded panels, dado
rail and cornice; corresponding panelling is later, blocking original 2-panel
kitchen door. Ovolo beams; stone fireplace with moulded opening and corbelled
lintel, field panels to frieze flank panel with date and initials: 'IR' above.
Grate has fire dogs and flanking stone human masks, and crane; spice cupboard
with door. Another room has round-headed niche with shelves with shaped edges.
2-panel door with H-L hinges leads to dog-leg stair with square newels and
moulded handrail, no balusters.

Listing NGR: SD3407883934