Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Ruecrofts | |
| parish |
Sedbergh parish, once in
Yorkshire
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| building/s | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD63609298 | |
| 10Km square:- |
SD69
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| 1Km square | SD6392 | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| RUE CROFTS AND ATTACHED BARN TO NORTH / / SLACKS LANE / SEDBERGH / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484647 / SD6360192984 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Farmhouse now house, with attached barn now store. Dated 1711 on spice-cupboard; enlarged and remodelled probably in early to mid C19, and recently altered. Slobbered rubble with quoins, slate roofs with some stone slate to the rear slopes. U-plan formed by 2-unit transitional double-depth house on north-south axis facing west, with side wings attached at both ends (that to north the barn), each with a wing projecting to the west. | ||
| EXTERIOR: the house, 2 storeys and 2 windows, now has a small gabled porch in the centre protecting a doorway with C20 part-glazed door, flanked on each floor by 2 large rectangular windows with recent multi-pane joinery: that to the right at 1st floor is crossed internally at half-height by the ceiling of the upper room, and to the right of it is the lintel of a former 1-light window. Gable chimneys. The re-entrant side of the south wing has an oblong window with glazing bars at ground floor, and its gable wall has a similar window at ground floor and a rectangular 2-light casement above. The rear wall of the main range has (inter alia) three 2-centred arched windows at 1st floor ,that in the centre larger and with Y-tracery. The former barn attached to the north has a square window at ground floor of the re-entrant and a rectangular window at 1st floor of the gable wall. | ||
| INTERIOR: the former housepart in the south bay has 2 lateral beams, a muntin-and-plank rear partition wall, a large C18 rectangular fireplace with a corbelled lintel and moulded surround including a moulded false keystone, and to the right of this a square spice-cupboard with a fielded panel which has incised lettering "D / R R / 1711"; the chamber above (which is the room with the ceiling crossing the window) has a muntin-and-plank enclosure of a former smoke-hood. The north bay has been raised and remodelled. The former barn to south is now integrated at first floor level with the house. | ||
| placename:- | Rue Crofts | |
| district:- | South Lakeland | |
| listed building -- barn | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD63609298 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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