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Barn and Shippon at North End of Farmyard at Long Rigg Farm

A Grade II Listed Building in Eskdale, Cumbria

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.3939 / 54°23'38"N

Longitude: -3.3272 / 3°19'37"W

OS Eastings: 313923

OS Northings: 500639

OS Grid: NY139006

Mapcode National: GBR 5K6M.GN

Mapcode Global: WH712.VTSF

Plus Code: 9C6R9MVF+H4

Entry Name: Barn and Shippon at North End of Farmyard at Long Rigg Farm

Listing Date: 14 May 1992

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1318866

English Heritage Legacy ID: 351976

ID on this website: 101318866

Location: Eskdale Green, Cumberland, Cumbria, CA19

County: Cumbria

District: Copeland

Civil Parish: Eskdale

Traditional County: Cumberland

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria

Church of England Parish: Eskdale St Catherine

Church of England Diocese: Carlisle

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Description


NY 1300 ESKDALE ESKDALE GREEN

328-0/14/10002 Barn and Shippon
at north end of
farmyard at
Long Rigg Farm

G.V. II

Barn and shippon (bank barn type), forming part of model farm.
Dated 1903 on gable walls, built for Lord Ree of Gatehouse.
Granite rubble with quoins, red sandstone dressings and graduated
slate roof. Rectangular 5-bay plan with elevated.entrance at rear
to barn. Two storeys. The side to the yard has 5 segmental headed
windows at ground floor with chamfered sills and granite
voussoirs, and 3 pane glazing over wooden ventilators, a
segmental headed loading doorway above the central window, and
2 slit breathers each side. coped gables with moulded kneelers
and apex finials. Both gable walls have pentice roofs on wooden
brackets protecting 2 shippon doorways next to the corners, the
left also has a central feeding passage doorway, and both have
datestones lettered "JHR/AD/1903". The rear has an earthen ramp
up to a central gabled porch which has a wagon doorway protected
by oversailing verges and an additional pentice canopy. Interior:
shippon contains complete set of original double stalls for 32
cows in 2 rows facing a central feeding passage furnished with
piped drinking bowls and granite feeding boxes, barn has trap
door in centre of floor (over feeding passage in shippon), and
4 kingpost roof trusses. A fine example of its type, together
with the stable block (q.v.), pigsties (q.v.), multi-functional
range (q.v.), manure shed (q.v.) and boundary wall (q.v.) forming
a complete model farm.


Listing NGR: NY1360800159

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