Description

NY 23 SW BASSENTHWAITE HIGH SIDE

4/25 High Side Farmhouse and adjoining barn 3.3.67 (formerly listed as Spout Close)

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Farmhouse and barn. Dated and inscribed over entrance R. & E.G. 1668 (Robert & Elizabeth Gregg) with C19 alterations. Painted roughcast walls, under graduated greenslate roof with brick chimney stacks. Barn of mixed rubble walls with flush quoins. 2 storeys, 3 bays with barn to right under common roof. C20 plank door in doorcase of engaged columns with carved diamond capitals and inscribed lintel under cornice. Sash windows in C19 painted stone surrounds, those flanking entrance with drip moulds. Barn has plank door in alternate-block surround under Tudor lintel and similar doorway to extreme left covered by a shippon. Further later doorway with loft doorway above and small chamfered-surround openings. Interior of house has segmental stone-arched inglenook, with panelled salt cupboard and spice cupboard recess. Cumbria County Record Office have deeds for this property 1567-1717, D/Ken/5/2.

Listing NGR: NY2348130602

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)