Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Fox House | |
| parish |
Matterdale parish, once in
Cumberland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| building/s | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY39672354 | |
| 10Km square:- |
NY32
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| References |
Listed Buildings 2010
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| 1Km square | NY3923 | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| FOX HOUSE / / / MATTERDALE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74563 / NY3967823543 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Farmhouse part of former longhouse. Probably third quarter of C17. (1631 date on rack above built-in cupboard, with initials I.W., appears to be an import). Rubble, rendered on front; stone-flagged roof. North side to road blank except for plain boarded door. Main south front 2 storeys, 3 bays. Half-glazed 4-panel door to right bay, in place of former window. Two and three-light stone chamfered-mullioned windows and a small fire window at left. End chimneys. Interior: Ground floor retains heck partition and chamfered beams and joists, except for renewed fire beam. Door from house-place to parlour is flanked by original panelled oak built-in cupboards, the right one dated but see above. Lintel of blocked doorway from former through-passage remains. C18 north extension, with lobby and dairy conceals boulder plinth and blocked window of original 2-cell house. The former downhouse, now converted to a separate dwelling, is too much altered to be of interest. | ||
| placename:- | Fox House | |
| district:- | Eden | |
| listed building | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY39672354 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| BARN AND BYRE TO EAST OF FOX HOUSE / / / MATTERDALE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74564 / NY3968423553 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Barn and byre. C18, byre dated 1759 on a lintel. Coursed rubble with dressings; stone-flagged roofs. Barn adjoins east end of house at right-angles running south; byre runs east from barn, forming overall T-shape with house. Barn 2 storeys, 4 bays internally. Large segmental-arched wagon entrance with well-cut voussoirs, on east face. Blank west face recently correctly rebuilt. Single-storey byre of 5 irregular bays. Various doors and windows, now mostly blocked, on North front. Doors in east end and on south, both boarded. Long lean-to south extensions, the western, with asbestos roof, not of special interest. | ||
| district:- | Eden | |
| listed building -- barn | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY39682355 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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