Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Nibthwaite Grange | |
| parish |
Colton parish, once in
Lancashire
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| locality:- | Nibthwaite | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| building/s | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD29618815 | |
| 10Km square:- |
SD28
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| 1Km square | SD2988 | |
| old map:- |
Ford 1839 map
-- probably relevant
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| Map of the Lake District, published in A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, 1839. | ||
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| Grange | ||
| placename:- | Grange | |
| county:- | Lancashire | |
| date:- | 1839 | |
| period:- | 19th century, early; 1830s | |
| old map:- |
Bowen and Kitchin 1760
-- probably relevant
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| New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin, published by T Bowles, John Bowles and Son, Robert Sayer, and John Tinney, 1760; published 1760-87. | ||
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| Nibthwate | ||
| circle | ||
| placename:- | Nibthwate | |
| date:- | 1760 | |
| period:- | 18th century, late; 1760s | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| NIBTHWAITE GRANGE / / BLETHERBARROW LANE / COLTON / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 421182 / SD2961188150 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| House. Probably C17 with later alterations and early C19 additions. Roughcast with limestone dressings, slate roof. Garden facade of 2 storeys and 5 bays, the last 2 bays are recessed, lower and gabled, part of original building. 1st 3 bays have hipped roof; central bay breaks forward under open pediment. Plain stone base and 1st floor sill band, wide bracketed eaves. Windows have architraves and are sashed with glazing bars, those to ground floor with panels beneath. Entrance has architrave, half-glazed doors and overlight with glazing bars and margin lights. Stacks to pediment and returns. Last 2 bays have gable-end stack; no ground floor windows. Rear of 4 irregular bays has sashed windows, some paired and tall stair window with small-paned fixed glazing; entrance with flat canopy. 2 cross-axial stacks. Interior has stair with ramped handrail and column on vase balusters; said to have niche with landscape painting in head (not seen). Originally a grange of Furness Abbey. | ||
| placename:- | Nibthwaite Grange | |
| district:- | South Lakeland | |
| listed building | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD29618815 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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