Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Lorton Park | |
| locality:- | High Lorton | |
| parish |
Lorton parish, once in
Cumberland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| building/s | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY15992585 | |
| 10Km square:- |
NY12
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| References |
Listed Buildings 2010
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| 1Km square | NY1525 | |
 Lorton Park -- High Lorton -- Lorton -- Cumbria / -- 1.1.2011 | ||
 Lorton Park -- High Lorton -- Lorton -- Cumbria / -- Door. -- 1.1.2011 | ||
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| LORTON PARK / / / LORTON / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72675 / NY1599325857 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| House. Early C19. Painted incised stucco with eaves cornice, parapet and angle pilasters. Graduated greenslate roof with ashlar chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 3 bays with road facade of 5 bays and left square tower wing. Round-headed C19 glazed door in stucco surround; flanking canted bay windows. Upper-floor sash windows with glazing bars in painted architraves under projecting cornices. Road facade has sash windows with glazing bars in painted architraves, 2 with round arches, one blind window and segmental carriage arch in quoined surround. Left return wall has segmental-headed ground-floor windows with margin glazing bars. Tower wing has hipped roof. Richard Harbard 1803-1878 of Lorton Park is recorded on a memorial in Lorton Church. | ||
| placename:- | Lorton Park | |
| district:- | Allerdale | |
| listed building | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY15992585 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| FRONT GATE PIERS AND WALL FOR LORTON PARK / / / LORTON / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72676 / NY1602425813 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Wall and gate piers to Lorton Park. Early C19. Painted incised stucco walls with saddle-back coping. Rectangular painted stucco piers with C20 lion finials. Serpentine walls, with square end piers. Listed for group value with Lorton Park. | ||
| district:- | Allerdale | |
| listed building -- gate piers | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY16022581 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| GARDEN WALL AND GATEWAY FOR LORTON PARK / / / LORTON / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72677 / NY1600825850 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Wall and integral gateway. Early C19. Painted incised stucco wall with saddle-back coping and higher rusticated ashlar gateway. Plank door in rusticated round-arched surround under cornice surmounted by C20 lion. Listed for group value with adjoining Lorton Park. Adjoining slate wall is not of interest. | ||
| district:- | Allerdale | |
| listed building -- gate | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY16002585 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| SUMMERHOUSE AT LORTON PARK / / / LORTON / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72752 / NY1593725811 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Summerhouse. c1830. Yellow stock brick, red brick eaves band, lead roof copper finial. Single cell octagonal plan. Single storey with a window to each face. Each corner has a projecting buttress. Pointed head windows clear glazed above a 4 x 3 small paned light. Much old slightly tinted glass, the door has two panels below an interlace band. Architrave surround. Projecting timber eaves, ogee roof, ball finial. | ||
| INTERIOR: Brick floor, fixed benches and central table. Roof of shaped rafters and close boarding. The windows look new but have old glass, the roof was apprently removed in the early 1970s. | ||
| district:- | Allerdale | |
| listed building -- summer house | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY15932581 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| SMOKE HOUSE NORTH OF LORTON PARK / / / LORTON / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72679 / NY1592325925 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Smoke house. Early C19. Slate rubble and cobble walls with sandstone dressings. Small single-storey circular building. Doorway with brick reveals and stone lintel. Modillioned battlements partly in ruin. Referred to by locals as the smoke house and thought to have been used for smoking fish and ham. | ||
| district:- | Allerdale | |
| listed building -- smoke house | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY15922592 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| photographs | ||
| Lorton Park -- High Lorton -- Lorton -- Cumbria / -- Garden gate. -- 1.1.2011 | |
| Lorton Park -- High Lorton -- Lorton -- Cumbria / -- Mounting block. -- 1.1.2011 | |
| Lorton Park -- High Lorton -- Lorton -- Cumbria / -- Smokehouse. -- 1.1.2011 | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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