Listed buildings in Cumwhitton

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Cumwhitton is a civil parish in the Carlisle district of Cumbria, England. It contains four listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. All the listed buildings are designated at Grade II, the lowest of the three grades, which is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest". [1] The parish contains the village of Cumwhitton and the surrounding countryside. The listed buildings consist of a house, a church, a former vicarage, and a wellhead.

Cumwhitton village in the United Kingdom

Cumwhitton is a small village and civil parish close to Carlisle in Cumbria, England. It lies just east of the M6 and the nearest train station is located in Wetheral, 3 miles away. Cumwhitton is often confused with the nearby village of Cumwhinton in Wetheral parish. The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 Census was 310.

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.

City of Carlisle City & non-metropolitan district in England

The City of Carlisle is a local government district of Cumbria, England, with the status of a city and non-metropolitan district. It is named after its largest settlement, Carlisle, but covers a far larger area which includes the towns of Brampton and Longtown, as well as outlying villages including Dalston, Scotby and Wetheral. The city has a population of 107,524. and an area of 1,039.97 square kilometres (402 sq mi), making it the largest city in England by area.

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Name and locationPhotographDateNotes
St Mary's Church
54°51′45″N2°46′15″W / 54.86261°N 2.77078°W / 54.86261; -2.77078 (St Mary's Church)
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The church was mostly rebuilt in the 19th century, and earlier material has been retained. It is in sandstone on a chamfered plinth, with quoins and a slate roof. The church consists of a nave with a north aisle, a chancel with a north vestry, and a west tower incorporating a porch. The tower has three stages, a doorway with a semicircular fanlight containing intersecting tracery, external stone steps leading to the ringing chamber, a clock face on the west side, and a pyramidal roof with a weathervane. In the wall of the church is a piece of Norman zigzag decoration, and a sundial. Inside the church the arcade has 12th-century circular piers and round arches. [2] [3]
Beech House
54°51′39″N2°46′21″W / 54.86075°N 2.77241°W / 54.86075; -2.77241 (Beech House)
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A sandstone house on a chamfered plinth, with quoins and a slate roof. There are two storeys and three bays. The doorway has an alternate block surround and a keyed entablature, and the windows are sashes with raised stone surrounds. [4]
Vicarage
54°51′44″N2°46′22″W / 54.86215°N 2.77287°W / 54.86215; -2.77287 (Vicarage)
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The former vicarage is in sandstone on a chamfered plinth, with quoins and a hipped slate roof. There are two storeys and three bays. The doorway has a plain surround, a moulded cornice, and a patterned fanlight. The windows are sashes with plain stone surrounds. [5]
Wellhead
54°51′46″N2°46′17″W / 54.86281°N 2.77151°W / 54.86281; -2.77151 (Wellhead)
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1897The wellhead is in the centre of the village green. It is in sandstone, and has a moulded surround with flanking reeded pilasters, a block entablature, and a triangular pediment containing the date. In front of it is a semicircular retaining wall. [6]

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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.

Nikolaus Pevsner German-born British scholar

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

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