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Latitude: 54.8407 / 54°50'26"N
Longitude: -3.2864 / 3°17'11"W
OS Eastings: 317482
OS Northings: 550304
OS Grid: NY174503
Mapcode National: GBR 5DHG.9J
Mapcode Global: WH6YZ.HL8D
Plus Code: 9C6RRPR7+7C
Entry Name: Swinsty Farmhouse
Listing Date: 19 November 1984
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1212570
English Heritage Legacy ID: 71966
ID on this website: 101212570
Location: Abbeytown, Cumberland, Cumbria, CA7
County: Cumbria
District: Allerdale
Civil Parish: Holme Abbey
Built-Up Area: Abbeytown
Traditional County: Cumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria
Church of England Parish: Holme Cultram St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Carlisle
Tagged with: Farmhouse
NU 15 SE HOLME ABBEY Abbeytown
6/15 Swinsty Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Dated and inscribed over former entrance J & J.J. 1667, with
extensive C18 and C19 alterations; extension dated 1866. Whitewashed rendered
rubble walls, partly of stone from Holme Cultram Abbey. Graduated greenslate
roof with coped gables and kneelers; stone chimney stacks. 2-storey, 3-bay
farmhouse with flanking extensions under common roof. 4-panel door under glazed
fanlight in C19 painted stone surround. Sash windows with glazing bars in
painted stone surrounds. Ground floor 2-pane sash window to extreme right was
formerly an entrance with shaped lintel dated and inscribed (probably moved from
its original position). Built into wall below eaves to right of entrance, is
the capital of a 3-shaft column from the Abbey. Extension to left has plank
door in painted stone surround. Projecting datestone above entrance and similar
uninscribed stone to right. Contemporary outshut to rear has stone mullioned
windows with mullions removed and smaller chamfered-surround fire window. James
Jackson's Diary 1650 to 1683, Transactions Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian
& Archaeological Society, new series, vol i, p113, "My new house begun wth to
build Apr. 15th 1667 by Edwd Ben and his men;" p116 "May 22nd 1651. Memoranda
we removed from Cannonby to Swinsty in Holme Cultram this day." Adjoining
outbuildings are not of interest.
Listing NGR: NY1748250304
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