Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Low House | |
| parish |
Buttermere parish, once in
Cumberland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| building/s | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY15612250 | |
| 10Km square:- |
NY12
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| 1Km square | NY1522 | |
| old map:- |
Crosthwaite 1783-94
(But/Cru/Low)
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| Series of maps, An Accurate Map of the Matchless Lake of Derwent, of the Grand Lake of Windermere, of the Beautiful Lake of Ullswater, of Broadwater or Bassenthwaite Lake, of Coniston Lake, of Buttermere, Crummock and Loweswater Lakes, and Pocklington's Island, by Peter Crosthwaite, Kendal, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1783 to 1794. | ||
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| Low House | ||
| placename:- | Low House | |
| house | ||
| date:- | 1783=1794 | |
| period:- | 18th century, late; 1780s; 1790s | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| LOW HOUSE AND ADJOINING BARN FORMING PART OF THE HOUSE / / / BUTTERMERE / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72159 / NY1560622488 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Farmhouse and barn now forming part of the house. Barn retains doorway, dated and inscribed J.G.W. 1740 (Wood), from the earlier house; present house dated and inscribed over entrance J. & S.W. 1773. Painted incised stucco, extension with angle pilasters, all with eaves cornice. Graduated greenslate roof with rendered chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 3 bays, with right single-bay extension at right-angles and long lower barn to left, forming overall L-shape. Top-glazed panelled door under patterned fanlight in pilastered surround under segmental pediment enclosing inscription. Sash windows in painted stone architraves. Barn has plank door in painted stone architrave under inscribed lintel. Sash windows in painted stone surrounds, all near to house. Barn extension to left is not of interest. | ||
| placename:- | Low House | |
| district:- | Allerdale | |
| listed building -- barn | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY15602248 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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