Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Sinkfall | |
| parish |
Barrow-in-Furness borough,
once in Lancashire
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| building/s | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD211735 | |
| 10Km square:- |
SD27
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| 1Km square | SD2173 | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| SINK FALL FARMHOUSE WITH ATTACHED FARM BUILDINGS / / RAKES MOOR LANE / BARROW IN FURNESS / BARROW IN FURNESS / CUMBRIA / II / 388559 / SD2117973560 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Farmhouse and cottage with attached farm buildings. C18 altered C19. Red sandstone partly roughcast; graduated slate roof partly replaced by corrugated sheets. L-shaped, elongated range: 2-storey house and cottage have 2:1 windows to 1st floor; 6-bay barn under same roof on left; later 2-storey cow house wing to front left. Both farmhouse and barn have 2- storey wings to rear. House: C20 door within gabled, sandstone porch flanked on each floor by 6-pane sashes with projecting sills and stone lintels. Cottage to right has panelled door and paired 4-pane sashes beneath 6-pane sash. Right gable with ashlar copings and C19 stone stack; 2 matching ridge stacks. Barn: altered waggon entrance with doorway to right. Cow house front gable has segmentally-arched door beneath 3 slits; its right return has 3 small openings and loft door flanked by slits. Rear of house: wing lit by 2-light, square-faced mullioned window to each floor; 3 similar windows to main range on left. | ||
| INTERIOR of farmhouse: fielded 2-panel pine doors off landing. Barn has C18 roof of principal-rafter trusses with double purlins. Cow house: pattern-book, king-post truss. Floor framing of rear wing to barn suggests former use as horse gin. | ||
| placename:- | Sink Fall Farm | |
| district:- | Barrow in Furness | |
| listed building | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD21177356 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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