Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Swinsty Farm | |
| locality:- | Abbey Town | |
| parish |
Holme Abbey parish, once in
Cumberland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| building/s | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY17485030 | |
| 10Km square:- |
NY15
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| References |
Listed Buildings 2010
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| 1Km square | NY1750 | |
 Swinsty Farm -- Abbey Town -- Holme Abbey -- Cumbria / -- 16.9.2011 | ||
 Swinsty Farm -- Abbey Town -- Holme Abbey -- Cumbria / -- Date stone:- -- 'J / J J / 16 67' -- 16.9.2011 | ||
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| SWINSTY FARMHOUSE / / / HOLME ABBEY / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 71966 / NY1748250304 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Farmhouse. Dated and inscribed over former entrance J & J.J. 1667, with extensive C18 and C19 alterations; extension dated 1866. Whitewashed rendered rubble walls, partly of stone from Holme Cultram Abbey. Graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and kneelers; stone chimney stacks. 2-storey, 3-bay farmhouse with flanking extensions under common roof. 4-panel door under glazed fanlight in C19 painted stone surround. Sash windows with glazing bars in painted stone surrounds. Ground floor 2-pane sash window to extreme right was formerly an entrance with shaped lintel dated and inscribed (probably moved from its original position). Built into wall below eaves to right of entrance, is the capital of a 3-shaft column from the Abbey. Extension to left has plank door in painted stone surround. Projecting datestone above entrance and similar uninscribed stone to right. Contemporary outshut to rear has stone mullioned windows with mullions removed and smaller chamfered-surround fire window. James Jackson's Diary 1650 to 1683, Transactions Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, new series, vol i, p113, "My new house begun wth to build Apr. 15th 1667 by Edwd Ben and his men;" p116 "May 22nd 1651. Memoranda we removed from Cannonby to Swinsty in Holme Cultram this day." Adjoining outbuildings are not of interest. | ||
| placename:- | Swinsty Farm | |
| district:- | Allerdale | |
| listed building | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY17485030 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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