Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | South End Farm | |
| locality:- | South End | |
| locality:- | Walney Island | |
| parish |
Barrow-in-Furness borough,
once in Lancashire
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| building/s | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD20416327 | |
| 10Km square:- |
SD26
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| References |
Listed Buildings 2010
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| 1Km square | SD2063 | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| SOUTH END FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FARM BUILDINGS / / HARE LANE / BARROW IN FURNESS / BARROW IN FURNESS / CUMBRIA / II / 388473 / SD2041563270 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Farmhouse with attached farm buildings. House dated 'WSI 1764' but of earlier origin; farm buildings early and late C18. Cement-rendered with Welsh slate and graduated slate roofs; farm buildings of cobble rubble with graduated slate and corrugated asbestos roofs. Farmhouse of 2 storeys and 3 windows to 1st floor with barn under same roof at right-angles to rear left; longer 2-storey farm building completes U-shaped group. Farmhouse: part-glazed door to right of centre has ashlar architrave with cornice on consoles; tall C20 casements to each side on each floor; date plaque over door. Earlier part to left has 2 segmentally-arched ground-floor windows (that to right may be in position of former door); C20 casement in square-headed opening above. Stone gutter brackets; end stack on right and 2 ridge stacks; left end of roof hipped at junction with barn to rear. Rear of house has outshuts under catslide roof. Barn: boarded double doors under wooden lintel and slated canopy; lean-to on right with pigeon holes in main wall above; stone stair to right of this rises against side of attached farm building. Altered farm building across north side of yard has large ground-floor openings, row of projecting throughs and segmentally-arched taking-in door to 1st floor right. | ||
| INTERIOR Three room plan reveals evidence of early build, enlarged in 1746. The principle stack and winder stair are grouped together at one end, representing the early phase, possible of longhouse type, the door of which has now become a window. Staircase with stick pilasters and ramped handrail. Doors are of 2, 4 and 6 panel type. Roof structure supported by C18 King post struts. Barn has early C18 principal-rafter trusses. Farmbuilding across north side of yard included for group value only. Farmbuilding projecting from front left of house not of special interest. | ||
| placename:- | South End Farm | |
| district:- | Barrow in Furness | |
| listed building | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD20416327 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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