Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | High Birks | |
| parish |
Crosthwaite and Lyth
parish, once in Westmorland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| building/s | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD42789058 | |
| 10Km square:- |
SD49
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| 1Km square | SD4290 | |
 High Birks -- Crosthwaite and Lyth -- Cumbria / -- 16.4.2006 | ||
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| FARM OUTBUILDING EAST OF HIGH BIRKS FARMHOUSE / / / CROSTHWAITE AND LYTH / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 351992 / SD4280290578 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Farm outbuilding. Dated 1695, with C19 alterations and additions. Watershot Lakeland stone rubble walling with limestone quoins, some monolithic, and limestone dressings, coped gables with kneelers and finial, and a Westmorland slate roof laid to diminishing courses. Bank barn plan, linear in form, with waggon access from high ground to rear, and cattle standings to ground floor to front. South elevation; 2 storey with overloft, 5 bays with long lean-to at west end and lower in-line gabled addition at east end. Shallow canopy to ground floor supported on timber corbels and plate shelters cowhouse entries and feed passage doorways. Massive stepped plinth interrupted by 5 plain doorways with whitewashed surrounds. 2 doors have ventilation slits, 2 are subdivided horizontally and one is now a window. There are 2 small window openings with glazing and louvres. There is an inscribed circular slate in the wall below the canopy at the west end which reads 'W.S.1695'. Above the doorway, 2 courses of projecting throughstones, and to the centre, a former winnowing doorway, now enlarged and glazed, below a slated canopy. North elevation of single storey height, with full-height double doorway and boarded doors below curved timber lintol and enclosed within shallow slated canopy. Lean-to to west with double doorway below timber lintol. South wall to lean-to appears near contemporary, and has doorways at different levels. Interior not fully inspected but observed to have a boarded threshing/loft floor and strutted roof trusses supporting a double purlin roof. One of the earliest known examples of what is held to be an C18 building type. | ||
| district:- | South Lakeland | |
| listed building | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD42809057 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| FARM OUTBUILDING EAST SOUTH EAST OF HIGH BIRKS FARMHOUSE / / / CROSTHWAITE AND LYTH / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 351993 / SD4278090586 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Farm outbuilding. Dated 1855, with minor C20 alterations. Rubble watershot Lakeland stone walling, with limestone quoining and dressings, and a Westmorland slate roof laid to diminishing courses. Bank barn type of linear form with substantial rear offshuts flanking upper side entry. 2 storey with overlofts to offshuts, 5 bays with central access on high side (north) to threshing and winnowing floor and fodder storage. South elevation with shallow ground floor canopy extending the full length of the building, supported on long stone canopy corbels (mostly now failing). 4 single doorways and a cart entry together with a single small square window at the west end. Only the east end doorway and the window are undisturbed; the other openings having been modified to form additional windows. Central first floor winnowing doorway beneath deep lintol with inscribed datestone above which reads J.C. 1853'. Tier of slit breathers below projecting eaves supported on moulded stone corbels. East and west side elevations altered, but with stable doorways and windows beneath single massive lintols and with loft doors above. The rear offshuts are entered through side doors beneath a canopy which shelters the double doorway to the winnowing floor. One of the largest of the surviving C19 bank barns in the Lake District. | ||
| district:- | South Lakeland | |
| listed building | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD42789058 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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