Description

NY 24 NE WIGTON Wigton

12/108 Spittal Farmhouse
1/4/67

G.V. II

Farmhouse. Early C18 (datestone of 1707 inscribed THOMAS SIMPSON & MARGARET
SIMPSON now on barn, but may have come from house). Coursed red sandstone with
string course and flush quoins on chamfered plinth. Graduated greenslate roof
with sandstone chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 6 bays (formerly 7 bays);
contemporary 2-bay right-angled extension to rear forming L-shape; lower
2-storey, 2-bay former house to left, with further single-bay extension under
common roof. C20 panelled door in partly blocked chamfered surround; similar
blocked entrance to extreme left. Blocked ground floor windows have been
cross-mullioned, the same as the upper floor. Flanking narrow upper-floor fire
windows, that to right has been blocked. Extension to rear has small blocked
windows and cross-mullioned windows. Sash windows in original chamfered
surrounds replace other cross-mullioned windows. Porch in the angle has 4-panel
door in painted architrave under pediment. Former C17 house has pebble-dashed
walls under graduated greenslate roof with pebble-dashed chimney stacks.
Panelled door in painted chamfered surround and further plank door in extension
to left. C20 ground floor casement window with smaller windows above. Interior
has one pair of upper crucks. Interior of main house has large ground floor
room with broad inglenook fireplace; heck partition and arched wooden firebeam.
Beamed ceiling in this. and in ground floor room of extension. Wine cellar under
stairs, retains its original stone shelves. For details of the medieval
Hospital of St Leonards on this site see Transactions Cumberland & Westmorland
Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, new series, lx, pp86-7.

Listing NGR: NY2632549377

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26508076

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)