Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Roe Head | |
| parish |
Castle Sowerby parish, once
in Cumberland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| building/s | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY40063879 | |
| 10Km square:- |
NY43
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| References |
Listed Buildings 2010
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| 1Km square | NY4038 | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| ROE HEAD AND BARNS ADJOINING / / / CASTLE SOWERBY / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73737 / NY4006138795 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Farmhouse and barns. Early C18 with C19 alterations. Painted incised stucco over sandstone rubble walls with V-jointed quoins. Graduated greenslate roof with coped gables; banded red sandstone gable end chimney stacks. Barns of mixed sandstone rubble walls, under part greenslate and red sandstone slate roofs. 2 storeys, 2 bays with slightly lower right C19 barn and left L-shaped barn extending to rear, forming overall U-shape. Central plank door in bolection architrave under cornice. 3-light flat-mullioned windows, those to left 2-light, in C19 surrounds, all in painted stone surrounds. Right barn has C20 casement windows under slit vents. Left barn is partly domestic; the gable wall has chamfered-surround C18 windows. Return wall has irregular casement windows in C19 painted stone surrounds. Rear of house has outshut with small 2-light stone-mullioned window and another similar window with mullion removed. L-shaped barn has central double plank doors in segmental arch and right pent extension. Right-angled extension has plank doors, loft openings, small openings and slit vents. | ||
| placename:- | Roe Head | |
| district:- | Eden | |
| listed building -- barn | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY40063879 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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