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placename:- Elliscale Farm
parish Dalton Town with Newton parish, once in Lancashire
county:- Cumbria
building/s
coordinates:- SD22557472
10Km square:- SD27
References Listed Buildings 2010

1Km square SD2274

database:- Listed Buildings 2010

Listed Buildings 2010

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ELLISCALE FARMHOUSE / / ASKAM ROAD / DALTON TOWN WITH NEWTON / BARROW IN FURNESS / CUMBRIA / II / 388395 / SD2255274728
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Farmhouse. C17 altered early C19. Scored stucco over stone, graduated slate roof. 2 storeys and attic, 3 windows to 1st floor; wing to rear right and 3-storey stair projection; lean-to against right return. Conservatory covers central doorway having 5-panel, part-glazed door in ashlar surround with cornice on consoles. Flanking windows and those to 1st floor have 4-pane sashes with projecting stone sills and raised surrounds. Steeply-pitched roof with ashar gable copings on left. Large external stack to right has tabling and rounded shaft; similar end stack on left.
INTERIOR: C19 wooden spiral staircase with tapered octagonal newel; steep stone staircase into rear wing. Attic has oak floor boards and 3 principal-rafter trusses with curved collars: one truss infilled with studwork, another has iron grinder attached; date 1819 in slate torching.

placename:- Elliscale Farm
district:- Barrow in Furness
listed building
coordinates:- SD22557472
date:- 2010
period:- 2010s

database:- Listed Buildings 2010

Listed Buildings 2010

courtesy of English Heritage
BARNS AND COW HOUSE TO SOUTH OF FARMYARD AT ELLISCALE FARM / / ASKAM ROAD / DALTON TOWN WITH NEWTON / BARROW IN FURNESS / CUMBRIA / II / 388396 / SD2255774694
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Barns and cow house. Late C18-early C19. Rubble limestone with large quoins, graduated slate roofs. L-shaped range comprises: tall, 1-storey 4-bay barn across east end; attached to west side a 5-bay bank barn having cow house under then a 3rd barn of approx 3 bays having half basement. Easternmost barn: waggon entrance facing west has boarded doors, wooden lintel and slated canopy on brackets; blocked window to left; external stone steps to right with iron handrail. Bank barn: 3 cast-iron columns to pentice now covered by corrugated-iron sheet; 5 boarded doors and 4 casements beneath. Altered window to 1st floor left, 2 rows of vents. Right gable has copings and weathervane. 3rd barn, set forward to right, has 3 casements to lower floor and 1 above; various vent holes; shaped kneelers and gable copings on right. Right return has waggon entrance with boarded doors and wooden lintel; canopy removed. Similar waggon entrance to west gable of bank barn.
INTERIORS: easternmost barn: arched winnowing door to rear; 3 principal rafter trusses, double purlins. Bank barn: cow house layout of 2 manure passages and 3 feeding passages; 4 principal-rafter trusses (2 altered). Later cow house to rear of easternmost barn not of special interest.
district:- Barrow in Furness
listed building -- barn
coordinates:- SD22557469
date:- 2010
period:- 2010s

database:- Listed Buildings 2010

Listed Buildings 2010

courtesy of English Heritage
GARDEN WALL TO SOUTH AND WEST OF ELLISCALE FARMHOUSE INCLUDING FARM BUILDING ATTACHED TO SOUTH WEST / / ASKAM ROAD / DALTON TOWN WITH NEWTON / BARROW IN FURNESS / CUMBRIA / II / 388397 / SD2251774711
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Wall with attached farm building. C18-early C19. Rubble limestone; farmbuilding has slate roof. Wall encloses garden to south of Elliscale Farmhouse (qv) then continues west to join 2-storey, 3-bay farm building; from north-west corner of this building the wall continues northwards as a high retaining wall then returns eastwards to finish near rear-left corner of house; this last section contains 6 bee-boles facing south. Wall: gate piers opposite house door; short section to west of house demolished; rough slab copings. Retaining wall section is approx 4m in height and has slate throughs. Bee-boles have 4 brick partitions and one of limestone; slate projection over. Farm building: large quoins; loose box and stable doorways to east. Hayloft entered from farm drive via double doors in south gable formerly covered by slated canopy.
INTERIOR: 2 principal-rafter trusses. Included for group value.
district:- Barrow in Furness
listed building
coordinates:- SD22517471
date:- 2010
period:- 2010s

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