Description

ULVERSTON

SD27NE RAKE LANE, Dragley Beck
626-1/1/145 Dragley Beck Cottage
20/06/72

II

Also known as: Sir John Barrow's Cottage RAKE LANE.
House, now shop with accommodation above. C17, altered.
Painted roughcast with slate roof replacing thatch.
Single storey with loft and with outshut at rear. To each side
of the doorway there is a window with plain reveals, slate
sill, and 3-light timber casement: the left-hand window is at
a slightly higher level. The doorway has plain reveals. The
right-hand (east) gable has a brick chimney cap with diagonal
shafts. The left-hand gable wall is blank. Against the
right-hand gable wall are 2 single-storey outhouses of unequal
size, with monopitch roofs which meet at a central valley.
Above is a blocked attic window of 2 lights with chamfered
timber mullions. The rear wall has low eaves and 3 windows
with plain reveals.
INTERIOR: to the left of the doorway is a solid masonry wall.
The left-hand room has sawn timber ceiling joists and an
access hatch leading to the attic. The right-hand room has 2
roughly chamfered main beams, one probably originally a
firehood bressumer. The fireplace has a timber cornice mantel.
Above is a marble tablet with an inscription which is said to
read:
'In this humble cottage, the best memorial of his enterprising
spirit, industry and perseverance, was born on the 19th June,
1764, Sir John Barrow, Baronet, L.L.D., F.R.S., who
accompanied Lord Macartney's Embassy to China; who travelled
far into the interior of Africa, and who was for forty years
(embracing the whole period of the last war), Secretary of the
Admiralty. He died in London on the 23rd November, 1848, in
the 85th year of his age. Remarkable for the vigour of his
mind, as his latter works abundantly testify, and scarcely
less remarkable for the activity of his body. SOLI DEO
GLORIA.'
(Rimmer JS: The Story of Ulverston: Ulverston: 1925-: 26).

Listing NGR: SD2895477634

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560221

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