Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Brow Top Farm | |
| parish |
Sebergham parish, once in
Cumberland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| building/s | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY35984169 | |
| 10Km square:- |
NY34
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| References |
Listed Buildings 2010
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| 1Km square | NY3541 | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| BROW TOP FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING BARNS / / / SEBERGHAM / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72483 / NY3598041692 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Farmhouse and adjoining barns; was a public house in C19 and C20. Dated and inscribed over entrance R. MONKHOUSE FABRICA 1730, incorporating part of a C17 house to rear. Painted roughcast walls with eaves cornice and flush quoins on chamfered plinth. Graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and kneelers; roughcast chimney stacks. Barns of roughcast walls under sandstone slate roofs. 2 storeys, 5 bays, with lower barns to left in U-shape. Panelled door under radial fanlight in bolection surround with keystone frieze under dated panel. 2-light flat stone-mullioned windows, with rounded arches to each light, to left of entrance. Other ground-floor windows to right have been similar but replaced by sash windows with glazing bars in original surrounds. Upper-floor 2-light flat stone-mullioned windows with glazing bars. Sash window over entrance in bolection surround. Rear has one original C17 window, with stone mullion removed. End wall left shows original roof line of the earlier house. Interior has inglenook with heck partition and carved late C17 firebeam (probably from the earlier house) with underside inscription and date 1730. Barns are partly the same date as the earliest house and entrance nearest house could have been the cross-passage. Through carriage-arch to left. Interior has one pair of upper crucks. Right-angled extension is later, now with C20 windows and openings. | ||
| placename:- | Brow Top Farm | |
| district:- | Allerdale | |
| listed building -- barn | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY35984169 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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