Listed buildings in Brigham, Cumbria

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Brigham is a civil parish in the borough of Allerdale in Cumbria, England. It contains 15 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, one is at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the village of Brigham and surrounding countryside. The listed buildings include a church and a sundial in the churchyard, houses and associated structures, farmhouses and farm buildings, milestones, a bridge, and a cattle pound.

Brigham, Cumbria a village located in Allerdale, United Kingdom

The village of Brigham, near the town of Cockermouth, Cumbria, England, has existed as a settlement since neolithic times.

Civil parish territorial designation and lowest tier of local government in England, UK

In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government, they are a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of ecclesiastical parishes which historically played a role in both civil and ecclesiastical administration; civil and religious parishes were formally split into two types in the 19th century and are now entirely separate. The unit was devised and rolled out across England in the 1860s.

Allerdale Borough in England

Allerdale is a non-metropolitan district of Cumbria, England, with borough status. Its council is based in Workington and the borough has a population of 93,492 according to the 2001 census, increasing to 96,422 at the 2011 Census.

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Grade Criteria [1]
I Buildings of exceptional interest, sometimes considered to be internationally important
II* Particularly important buildings of more than special interest
II Buildings of national importance and special interest

Buildings

Name and locationPhotographDateNotesGrade
St Bridget's Church
54°39′54″N3°25′08″W / 54.66506°N 3.41896°W / 54.66506; -3.41896 (St Bridget's Church)
St Bridgets Church Brigham - geograph.org.uk - 78401.jpg
The church was altered in each of the following three centuries, and restored in 1863–76 by William Butterfield. It is in calciferous sandstone and has green slate roofs with coped gables, cross finials and shaped ridge tiles. The church consists of a west tower, a nave with a south aisle, a south porch, and a chancel with a north vestry. The tower is in three stages and it has a saddleback roof. [2] [3]
Parsonage Farmhouse
54°39′56″N3°25′08″W / 54.66563°N 3.41889°W / 54.66563; -3.41889 (Parsonage Farmhouse)
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Originally a vicarage, and later used as a farmhouse, it was altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The house has thick roughcast walls and a Welsh slate roof, and has two storeys and three bays. Its remaining medieval features include a pointed window arch and two corbels flanking the porch. Later features include sash windows, some of which are horizontally sliding, and a stone porch. [4] [5]
Sundial
54°39′53″N3°25′08″W / 54.66479°N 3.41886°W / 54.66479; -3.41886 (Sundial)
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1684The sundial is in the churchyard of St Bridget's Church. It is in red sandstone, and has a shaft with chamfered and moulded angles. On one face is the date, and the sundial is on the other face. The gnomon is missing. [6]
Midtown Farmhouse and barns
54°39′36″N3°24′51″W / 54.65991°N 3.41427°W / 54.65991; -3.41427 (Midtown Farmhouse)
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The farmhouse and barns, one on each side, are roughcast with green slate roofs. The house has two storeys and three bays. The barn on the left shares a common roof with the house, and the right barn is lower. The doorway has an architrave. Most of the windows are sashes, and there is also a casement window and two fire windows. [lower-alpha 1] [7]
Brigham Hall
54°39′33″N3°25′06″W / 54.65911°N 3.41827°W / 54.65911; -3.41827 (Brigham Hall)
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A pebbledashed farmhouse with quoins and a green slate roof. It has two storeys and five bays. The doorway has a shaped head, and the windows are sashes. [8]
Gate posts, 81 High Brigham
54°39′33″N3°25′06″W / 54.65918°N 3.41834°W / 54.65918; -3.41834 (Gate posts, 81 High Brigham)
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A pair of gate piers in pebbledashed stone with a square plan. They have shaped caps and ball finials. [9]
114 High Brigham and former barn
54°39′35″N3°25′09″W / 54.65980°N 3.41913°W / 54.65980; -3.41913 (114 High Brigham)
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The house and former barn are stuccoed with green slate roofs. The house has an eaves cornice, quoins, two storeys, and three bays. The doorway has an architrave and a pediment, and the windows are sashes, also with architraves. The barn to the right is lower and recessed; it contains a doorway, a garage door, a sash window, a casement window, and an oval vent. [10]
126 High Brigham
54°39′35″N3°25′11″W / 54.65961°N 3.41961°W / 54.65961; -3.41961 (126 High Brigham)
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A rendered house with quoins and a green slate roof. It has two storeys and three bays, with a single-bay extension to the left. The doorway has a quoined surround, and the windows are sashes. [11]
Cattle pound
54°39′25″N3°24′36″W / 54.65696°N 3.41012°W / 54.65696; -3.41012 (Cattle pound)
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The cattle pound is in calciferous sandstone. It consists of a low dry stone wall enclosing a roughly rectangular area. [12]
Milestone, Broughton Cross
54°39′35″N3°25′55″W / 54.65975°N 3.43204°W / 54.65975; -3.43204 (Milestone, Broughton Cross)
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The milestone was provided for the Cockermouth to Workington Turnpike road. It has a rounded top and is inscribed on the front with the distances in miles to Cockermouth and to Workington. [13]
Milestone, Eller Ridge Cottage
54°39′55″N3°24′38″W / 54.66526°N 3.41063°W / 54.66526; -3.41063 (Milestone, Eller Ridge Cottage)
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The milestone was provided for the Cockermouth to Workington Turnpike road. It has a rounded top and is inscribed on the front with the distances in miles to Cockermouth and to Workington. [14]
Old Vicarage
54°39′55″N3°24′54″W / 54.66525°N 3.41511°W / 54.66525; -3.41511 (Old Vicarage)
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A rendered house with gable cross finials and a green slate roof. It has two storeys and three bays. The central porch leads to double doors above which is a fanlight. The windows are sashes with chamfered surrounds and hood moulds. [4] [15]
Wall and gate piers, Old Vicarage
54°39′52″N3°24′53″W / 54.66453°N 3.41466°W / 54.66453; -3.41466 (Wall and gate piers, Old Vicarage)
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The wall and gate piers are in calciferous sandstone. The wall is low and serpentine shaped, with saddleback coping. The gate piers are square and rusticated and have pyramidal caps. [16]
Broughton High Bridge
54°40′06″N3°25′32″W / 54.66821°N 3.42545°W / 54.66821; -3.42545 (Broughton High Bridge)
Broughton High Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 425897.jpg
1835A road bridge carrying Great Boughton over the River Derwent, it is in rusticated calciferous sandstone, and consists of three segmental arches. The arches have voussoirs, and are carried on round piers. The bridge has solid parapets with chamfered coping. [17]
Ellerlea
54°39′34″N3°24′47″W / 54.65953°N 3.41296°W / 54.65953; -3.41296 (Ellerlea)
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A stuccoed house with an eaves cornice, angle pilasters, and a green slate roof. There are two storeys and three bays. The central doorway has a fanlight and an Ionic doorcase, flanked by single-storey canted bay windows. Above the doorway is a round-headed sash window, and the other upper floor windows are casements. [18]

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ↑ Street View in May 2009 shows that the barns have been converted for domestic use.

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Historic England Executive non-departmental public body of the British Government, tasked with protecting the historical environment of England

Historic England is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). It is tasked with protecting the historical environment of England by preserving and listing historic buildings, ancient monuments and advising central and local government.

The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) is England’s official list of buildings, monuments, parks and gardens, wrecks, battlefields and World Heritage Sites. It is maintained by Historic England and brings together these different designations as a single resource even though they vary in the type of legal protection afforded to each. Conservation areas do not appear on the NHLE since they are designated by the relevant local planning authority.

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Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner was a German, later British scholar of the history of art, especially of architecture.

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