Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Birks Farm | |
| parish |
Sedbergh parish, once in
Yorkshire
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| building/s | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD69439464 | |
| 10Km square:- |
SD69
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| References |
Listed Buildings 2010
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| 1Km square | SD6994 | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| BIRKS FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN / / CAUTLEY ROAD / SEDBERGH / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484522 / SD6943694641 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Farmhouse, with attached barn. Probably later C17, enlarged at an early date; altered. Coursed rubble with quoins, the front cream-washed; roof of slate and stone slate. The house is L-plan formed by a single-depth 2-unit range on east-west axis facing south, with a rear outshut added to the 2nd unit. | ||
| EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and 3 windows, with a lean-to porch in the centre flanked by square C20 2-light casements, a 1-light fixed window to the right (probably a former fire-window), and three C20 casements at 1st floor. (Some of these windows were probably formerly mullioned, as the description in the list issued in 1984 refers to two 3-light windows at ground floor "of which one has lost one mullion", and the sill of a former 3-light mullioned window with chamfered mullions is now loose at the front of the house.) Gable chimneys, that to the right corbelled. Attached to the west end is a small barn forming a projected wing. The right-hand gable wall has a blocked former doorway next to the rear corner, with a shallow triangular head and chamfered surround (suggesting a former end-baffle-entry plan), and the added lean-to outshut has a blocked square window in this side. The rear has restored or modernised windows. | ||
| INTERIOR: the former housepart in the 2nd bay has a built-in spice cupboard to the right of the present chimney-breast, with a plain panelled door on butterfly hinges, but has otherwise been refurbished; the parlour in the 1st bay has a chamfered axial beam and original joists, and a small original fireplace now blocked. | ||
| placename:- | Birks Farm | |
| district:- | South Lakeland | |
| listed building -- barn | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD69439464 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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