Listed buildings in Skelwith

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Skelwith is a civil parish in the South Lakeland District of Cumbria, England. It contains 17 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 parish is in the Lake District National Park. The only settlement of significant size is the village of Skelwith Bridge, the rest of the parish being rural. Most of the listed buildings are houses with associated structures, and farmhouses and farm buildings. The other listed buildings are a church and a bridge.

Skelwith civil parish in England

Skelwith is a civil parish in South Lakeland, Cumbria, England, which includes the village of Skelwith Bridge. It has a parish council. The parish lies west of the northern end of Windermere.

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.

South Lakeland District in England

South Lakeland is a local government district in Cumbria, England. The population of the non-metropolitan district at the 2011 Census was 103,658. Its council is based in Kendal. It includes much of the Lake District as well as northwestern parts of the Yorkshire Dales.

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Grade Criteria [1]
II* Particularly important buildings of more than special interest
II Buildings of national importance and special interest

Buildings

Name and locationPhotographDateNotesGrade
High Park Cottages
54°25′00″N3°02′40″W / 54.41679°N 3.04442°W / 54.41679; -3.04442 (High Park Cottages)
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Two cottages and an outbuilding, they are in stone with a slate roof. There are two storeys, four bays, and an outbuilding to the left. Most of the windows are casements, there are two fire windows, and at the rear is a mullioned window. [2]
High Park Farmhouse and outbuilding
54°25′01″N3°02′40″W / 54.41694°N 3.04452°W / 54.41694; -3.04452 (High Park Farmhouse)
High Park Farm, Little Langdale.jpg
The house and outbuilding are in stone with slate roofs. The house has two storeys, three bays, a lean-to outhouse on the left, and at the rear is an 18th-century kitchen wing, with the outbuilding attached. The windows are casements with hood moulds, and above the central doorway is a slate gabled canopy. The outbuilding includes a barn at the end. [3]
Bull Close, Bull Close Cottage and Barn End
54°24′48″N3°00′26″W / 54.41345°N 3.00716°W / 54.41345; -3.00716 (Bull Close, Bull Close Cottage and Barn End)
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A row of three stone houses with a slate roof, hipped to the left. There are two storeys and six bays. The windows are casements, those in the first three bays with slate-hung lintels. In front of the fourth bay is a lean-to extension. [4]
The Brow
54°24′57″N3°00′46″W / 54.41594°N 3.01273°W / 54.41594; -3.01273 (The Brow)
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A stone house with a slate roof, two storeys, two bays, and a 19th-century rear extension. The windows on the front are casements, some are mullioned, and in the extension they are sashes. Inside there are two cruck trusses. [5]
High Arnside Farmhouse and cottage
54°24′23″N3°01′48″W / 54.40643°N 3.03011°W / 54.40643; -3.03011 (High Arnside Farmhouse and cottage)
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1697Two stone houses with a slate roof, two storeys, five bays, and a rear gabled projection. There are two doorways, one with a gabled porch. The windows are casements, and there is a fire window. [6]
Manor Cottage and Old Manor House
54°24′59″N3°00′07″W / 54.41644°N 3.00196°W / 54.41644; -3.00196 (Manor Cottage and Old Manor House)
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Two stone houses with a slate roof, two storeys, five bays, and a one-bay wing at the rear. In the second bay is a gabled porch. Most of the windows are casements, some are sashes, one is mullioned, and there are two fire windows. [7]
Hodge Close
54°24′28″N3°03′11″W / 54.40765°N 3.05309°W / 54.40765; -3.05309 (Hodge Close)
English Cottage - geograph.org.uk - 415975.jpg
A stone house with one slate wall and a slate roof, it has two storeys, two bays, and a rear outshut. On the front is a lean-to porch, and the windows are casements and two fire windows. [8]
Holme Ground Cottage, barn, and stable
54°24′06″N3°03′44″W / 54.40153°N 3.06225°W / 54.40153; -3.06225 (Holme Ground Cottage)
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The house and outbuildings are in stone with slate roofs. The house has two storeys, two bays, a slate gabled canopy over the doorway, and casement windows. The stable to the left has a doorway and flanking windows with a hood mould, and a crow-stepped gable. The barn and cow house are at right angles to the right. [9]
Low Arnside Farmhouse and barn
54°24′29″N3°01′42″W / 54.40816°N 3.02824°W / 54.40816; -3.02824 (Low Arnside Farmhouse)
Low Arnside Farm - geograph.org.uk - 1627799.jpg
The farmhouse and barn are in stone with slate roofs. The house has two storeys, three bays, and a lean-to extension at the rear. Above the door is a slate gabled canopy, and the windows are mullioned. The barn has barn doors and a blocked winnowing door. [10]
Old Farmhouse and Old Farm Cottage
54°25′01″N3°00′09″W / 54.41701°N 3.00238°W / 54.41701; -3.00238 (Old Farmhouse and Old Farm Cottage)
Skelwith Fold - geograph.org.uk - 1597078.jpg
Two houses and an outbuilding in stone, the houses roughcast, and with a slate roof. The houses have two storeys, four bays, and an outshut and a wing at the rear. The windows in the first bay are casements, and elsewhere they are sashes. There is a gabled porch in the third bay. The outbuilding to the right has one storey and contains a doorway, a sash window, and two garage doors. [11]
High Oxen Fell Farmhouse
54°24′29″N3°02′38″W / 54.40813°N 3.04399°W / 54.40813; -3.04399 (High Oxen Fell Farmhouse)
High Oxen Fell Farmhouse.jpg
A stone farmhouse with a slate roof, two storeys, four bays, a lean-to extension on the left, and two rear gabled wings. On the front is an open gabled porch with benches. The windows are casements with a hood mould above. At the rear, steps lead to an upper floor doorway. [12]
Bee boles, Holme Ground House
54°24′06″N3°03′46″W / 54.40166°N 3.06271°W / 54.40166; -3.06271 (Bee boles, Holme Ground Farmhouse)
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The bee boles are in a drystone wall enclosing a field to the rear of the farmhouse, and consist of five recesses. [13]
Low Oxen Fell
54°24′35″N3°02′19″W / 54.40975°N 3.03853°W / 54.40975; -3.03853 (Low Oxen Fell)
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A stone house that has a slate roof with coped gables. There are two storeys, two bays, and a rear outshut. On the front is a gabled porch, and the windows are casements, with a hood mould above the ground floor windows. [14]
Low Oxen Fell Cottage
54°24′34″N3°02′22″W / 54.40952°N 3.03945°W / 54.40952; -3.03945 (Low Oxen Fell Cottage)
Oxen Fell cottage - geograph.org.uk - 573251.jpg
A small stone house with a slate roof. one storey and two bays. On the front is a timber porch, and the windows are casements. [15]
Brathay Hall
54°25′10″N2°58′40″W / 54.41950°N 2.97789°W / 54.41950; -2.97789 (Brathay Hall)
Brathay Hall - geograph.org.uk - 37723.jpg
1794–96A country house in Georgian style, later used for other purposes, built in sandstone with hipped slate roofs. The central block has three storeys and five bays, and is flanked by wings with one storey and attics, and three bays. The windows are sashes, there is a French window in the right wing, and the three-light stair window at the rear. On the front is a semicircular portico with four unfluted Doric columns with leaf capitals, a frieze, a cornice, and a blocking course. [16] [17]
Holy Trinity Church
54°25′16″N2°59′04″W / 54.42109°N 2.98438°W / 54.42109; -2.98438 (Holy Trinity Church)
Holy Trinity, Brathay.jpg
1836The church is stuccoed with stone dressings, pilaster buttresses, a corbelled frieze, and a slate roof with coped gables on the nave and a hipped roof on the chancel. It consists of a nave, a short chancel with a north vestry and organ loft, and a southwest tower. The tower has three stages, set-back buttresses, string courses, and a south entrance. The windows in the nave have round heads, and the east window has three lights. [16] [18]
Skelwith Bridge
54°25′18″N3°00′42″W / 54.42155°N 3.01175°W / 54.42155; -3.01175 (Skelwith Bridge)
Bridge at Skelwith Bridge.jpg
UncertainThe bridge carries the A593 road over the River Brathay. It is in stone and has two segmental arches, with triangular cutwaters and solid and almost flat parapets. [19]

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