Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Cross Farm | |
| parish |
Burgh by Sands parish, once
in Cumberland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| building/s; cross | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY32725913 | |
| 10Km square:- |
NY35
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| References |
Listed Buildings 2010
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| 1Km square | NY3259 | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| CROSS FARM AND ADJOINING BARNS / / / BURGH BY SANDS / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 78228 / NY3272959134 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Farmhouse and barns Late C17 house and barn with early C19 outbuilding. House: painted rendered clay walls, end brick wall; Welsh slate roof, brick chimney stacks. Outbuilding: mixed sandstone and cobbles with flush red sandstone quoins; graduated greenslate roof, partly replaced with corrugated asbestos. Barn: painted clay walls, corrugated asbestos roof. 2-storey, 3-bay house: outbuilding to left at right-angles 2 storeys, numerous bays: barn of single storey 4 bays, at right-angles to outbuilding: buildings enclose farmyard on 3 sides. 6-panel top-glazed door in eared architrave with moulded cornice. Ground floor sash windows with glazing bars, Yorkshire sash windows above, all in plain painted stone surrounds. Large cart entrance through outbuilding to loft into farmyard. Farmyard facade of outbuilding: C20 sliding door in keyed round arch. Flanking ground floor entrances: windows on 2 levels to left and right. Roman inscribed stone altar, found nearby in 1802,incorporated in wall. Barn has large cart entrance: original slatted loft vaults. Interior has 4 pairs of full crucks. For inscription see Collingwood & Wright, Roman Inscribed Stones of Britain, 1965, p625 (2040). | ||
| placename:- | Cross Farm | |
| district:- | Carlisle | |
| listed building -- barn | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY32725913 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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