Millbeck Hall and Adjoining Barn
MILLBECK HALL AND ADJOINING BARN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1121974
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Millbeck Hall and Adjoining Barn
- Statutory Address:
- MILLBECK HALL AND ADJOINING BARN
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- Reference:
- IOE01/08982/12
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1121974
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Millbeck Hall and Adjoining Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILLBECK HALL AND ADJOINING BARN
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MILLBECK HALL AND ADJOINING BARN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Underskiddaw
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 25595 26082
Details
NY 22 NE UNDERSKIDDAW MILLBECK
8/119 Millbeck Hall and 3.3.67 adjoining barn
II*
Farmhouse and barn. Dated over rear entrance 1592. Roughcast walls, under graduated greenslate roof with brick chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 5 bays, with contemporary single-bay wing to left rear and 2-bay barn to right of higher roof line, forming overall L-shape. 2- and 3-light chamfered stone-mullioned windows and smaller firewindows on both floors to right. 2 windows are C20 casements in enlarged surrounds. Rear has replacement studded plank door in Tudor-style surround under shaped lintel, dated and inscribed QVORSUM M.W. VIVERE MORI, MORI VIVERE NICHOLAS WILLIAMSON (whither are we going, to live is to die, to die is to live eternally). 2-light chamfered stone-mullioned windows and similar windows in wing. Left plank door with ramp and steps to loft doorway. Barn has openings with plain reveals and doorways to side and rear. Thought to incorporate the remains of a C15 fortified tower with newel staircase in thickness of the wall, but this is hidden by roughcast. See Old Manorial Halls of Westmorland & Cumberland, by W.M. Taylor, 1892, pp320-323. Birthplace of Sir Joseph Williamson a C17 Secretary of State.
Listing NGR: NY2559526082
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 72204
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Taylor, M W, Old Manorial Halls of Cumberland and Westmorland, (1892), 320-323
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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