Listed buildings in Helbeck

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Helbeck is a civil parish in the Eden District, Cumbria, England. It contains three listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The listed buildings comprise a country house, an associated coach house, and an observation tower.

Helbeck a village located in Eden, United Kingdom

Helbeck is a village and a civil parish near the larger village of Brough, in the Eden District, in the English county of Cumbria. There is a wood called Helbeck Wood nearby. The population taken at the 2011 Census was only minimal and is included in the parish of Brough.

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.

Eden District District in England

Eden is a local government district in Cumbria, England. Its council is based in Penrith. It is named after the River Eden which flows north through the district toward Carlisle.

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II* Particularly important buildings of more than special interest
II Buildings of national importance and special interest

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Name and locationPhotographDateNotesGrade
Helbeck Hall
54°32′12″N2°19′22″W / 54.53679°N 2.32283°W / 54.53679; -2.32283 (Helbeck Hall)
Helbeck Hall.jpg
1776A country house in pebbledashed stone on a chamfered plinth, with rusticated quoins, moulded eaves, a parapet with urns, and a hipped slate roof. There are two storeys, and a symmetrical front of seven bays, the outer bays being lower and recessed. In the centre is a French window with a traceried fanlight. The windows are sashes that have ogee-headed architraves with finials. There is a 19th-century single-storey billiard room at the northeast corner. In the roof are three ogee-headed dormers, and at the rear is a retaining wall about 15 feet (4.6 m) high. [2] [3]
Coach house, Helbeck Hall
54°32′13″N2°19′24″W / 54.53694°N 2.32342°W / 54.53694; -2.32342 (Coach house, Helbeck Hall)
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1776The coach house is in stone with rusticated quoins, moulded eaves, and a hipped slate roof. There are two storeys and six bays. Above the central two bays is a pediment containing a quatrefoil window. The coach house contains a segment-headed entrance converted into a window, and the other windows are sashes in stone surrounds. [2] [4]
Fox Tower
54°32′29″N2°19′51″W / 54.54126°N 2.33087°W / 54.54126; -2.33087 (Fox Tower)
Fox Tower, Helbeck Wood, Brough, Cumbria - geograph.org.uk - 50513.jpg
Built as an observation tower, but now without a roof or floors, it is in stone with some brick. The tower is circular, tapering, and with two storeys. There is an entrance in the ground floor, and five windows in the upper floor with semicircular heads. Adjacent to the main tower is a smaller tower containing a staircase, and the whole stands on a large semicircular drum plinth. [2] [5]

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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.

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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