Description

NY 52 SW LOWTHER LOWTHER VILLAGE

12/148 Nos 1-12 consecutive
6.2.68
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12 houses. 1766-73 by Robert Adam, as estate houses for Sir James Lowther, part
of a model village which was never completed. Mixed sandstone rubble walls with
string courses and eaves cornices. Hipped graduated greenslate roofs with
banded cement-rendered chimney stacks. Built in open courtyard plan with
"palace" facades on 3 sides of a square. Closing the courtyard at one end is a
2-storey, 7-bay house. The longer sides have similar central houses, at either
side of which are 2-storey, 3-bay houses flanked by single-storey, 2-bay wings,
all joined in a continuous row. Each central house has recessed 3-bay centre
and flanking gabled wings. Central plank doors in plain openings with sandstone
lintels; wings have off-centre doors. Regularly-spaced C20 casement windows
with glazing bars, in plain reveals with red sandstone lintels and sills.
Originally divided into 16 houses but altered with HBC grant in 1965. See
Ancient Monuments Society's Transactions, 14, pp.57-73, R.W. Brunskill, Lowther
Village and Robert Adam.

Listing NGR: NY5354423654

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17543238

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)