Appendix 2 - Gazetteer of historic buildings
Summary details of all the thirty-three buildings in the care of the National Trust within the survey
appear within the following appendix.
The information presented here is just a summary of what is known for each individual building.
Additional information can be found in the relevant Vernacular Building Survey report.
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted for advice regarding the future
management of these buildings and should be informed ahead of any work that may affect either the
exterior or interior of a building.
NTSMR no: 20147
Name: Hartsop Hall Farm, Hartsop, Patterdale
NGR: NY39831205
Site Type and Period: HALL – Medieval – 1400 AD to
1500 AD, COW HOUSE - Post Medieval - 1540 AD to
1900 AD, HAY BARN - Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900
AD, BARN - Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD,
FIELD BARN - Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD,
FARMHOUSE - Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD,
SHEEP DIP- Modern - 1901 AD to 2050 AD, PRIVY
HOUSE - Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD
Description:
A farmstead comprising 6 buildings, including; Hartsop Hall
(ntsmr 20625), the farmhouse or Dovedale Cottage (ntsmr
25641); cruck barn (ntsmr 25642); field barns (ntsmr 25643
and 25644 and 25645); and earth closet (ntsmr 25646).
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this buildings
and should be informed ahead of any work that may affect
either the exterior or interior of a building.
NTSMR no: 20200
Name: Caudalebeck Farm, Hartsop, Patterdale
NGR: NY40061157
Site Type and Period: FARM - Post Medieval - 1540
AD to 1900 AD; COTTAGE AND HAY BARN - Post
Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD; GARAGE - Post
Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD; FARMHOUSE - Post
Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD
Description:
Lying in a fold in the landscape the farm is not a particularly
prominent feature from the Kirkstone Pass road, but is
conspicuous from Brotherswater. This early 18th century
farm consists of a farmhouse (ntsmr 25686), a garage (ntsmr
25687), barn (ntsmr 25688), cottage and haybarn (ntsmr
25689), dutch barn (ntsmr 25690) and a field barn (ntsmr
25691).
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this buildings
and should be informed ahead of any work that may affect
either the exterior or interior of a building.
NTSMR no: 20520
Name: Beckstones Farm, Patterdale, Ullswater
NGR: NY40341498
Site Type and Period: BARN, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to
1900 AD; BANK BARN, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to
1900 AD; FARMHOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to
1900 AD; PRIVY HOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to
1900 AD
Description:
A farm complex consisting of 9 buildings, including:
farmhouse (ntsmr 26229), sheep dipping building
(ntsmr 26230), earth closet (ntsmr 26233), former house
(ntsmr 26231), bank barn (ntsmr 26232), barns (ntsmr
26234, 26235, 26236), and Ruin (ntsmr 27060).
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this
buildings and should be informed ahead of any work that
may affect either the exterior or interior of a building.
NTSMR no: 20201
Name: Howe Green Farm, Ullswater
NGR: NY40901312
Site Type and Period: CORN MILL, Post Medieval 1540 AD to 1900 AD; FIELD BARN, Post Medieval 1540 AD to 1900 AD; FARM LABOURERS
COTTAGE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD;
CORN DRYING KILN, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to
1900 AD; BARN, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD;
COW HOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD;
FARMHOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD;
RAILWAY CARRIAGE, Modern - 1901 AD to 2050
AD; PRIVY HOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900
AD
Description:
This farm consists of twelve separate units; farmhouse
(ntsmr 25693), barn and byre (ntsmr 25694), earth closet
(ntsmr 25695), corn drying kiln (ntsmr 25696), shed (ntsmr
25697), railway wagon (ntsmr 25698), cottage and barn
(ntsmr 25699), field barn (ntsmr 25700), cow house (ntsmr
25701), hay barn (ntsmr 25702), hogg house (ntsmr 25703),
hogg house (ntsmr 21315).
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this
buildings and should be informed ahead of any work that
may affect either the exterior or interior of a building.
NTSMR no: 20625
Name: Hartsop Hall Farmhouse, Hartsop, Patterdale
NGR: NY40281136
Site Type and Period: HALL - Medieval - 1400 AD to
1500 AD, FARMSTEAD – Post Medieval – 1700 AD to
1900 AD
Description:
Hartsop Hall Farm lies at the bottom of the Kirkstone Pass,
1/4 mile south-west of Brothers Water and 1/4 mile W of the
Brothers Water Hotel. Access is gained via the track by the
Hotel.
Hartsop Hall is undoubtedly one of the oldest buildings in
Patterdale, and in previous years one of the most important.
The tales surrounding it include smuggling, murder, ghosts
and of course the monks who reputedly gave their name to
Brothers Water. None of the architectural details at the hall
can be ascribed a particular date, but they are generally
through to be 16th century additions and improvements made
to an earlier bastle house, of perhaps fourteenth century date.
Unusual features include a king-post roof, a garderobe, an
extremely ornate beamed ceiling to the first-floor hall,
arched headed windows, 17th century staircase, and what can
only be described as a priest's hole.
The only visible wall of the hall itself is built of large
cobbles with cobble quoins. The other faces are rendered or
covered by the various extensions. Only the ground floor
window on the south-west face has a label, the other
windows have either been removed, or perhaps never
existed.
Three of the original four king-post roof trusses remain.
Details of the truss construction could not be seen, nor the
form of scarf employed for the purlins. Some members were
however numbered with neatly chiselled marks. This proved
that the remaining truss had originally been of the same type,
although a collar bolted between the principals now replace
the tie. Also at this end (and in the adjoining barn) the ridge
is supported by a vertical post that rises from a beam
spanning between the thicker walls towards the quoins. The
pitch is unusually steep.
All the internal doors are panelled, and apparently date from
a late Victorian renovation of the hall when fireplaces were
replaced, and the garderobe and pries hole filled. The northeast door was put in 1949, and the original window moved
along the wall. A doorway with four-centred arch seems to
be contemporary with the windows despite its unusual
position at the foot of the staircase.
The original windows have elliptical heads, and are of one,
two or three lights with decorative spandrels. As stated only
one window has a label, the remainders are rendered right up
to the sandstone. The frames were fixed in with metal
dowel; these have rusted and split many of the mulions
which have since been replaced. Internally the reveals and
soffit are plastered, but underneath there are three wooden
lintels with curved step stop chamfers. Two windows
originally lit the attics via the gable wall, one of these is now
blocked. The rectangular form and hollow chamfered
surround is similar in design to the blocked 'cheese window'
at the end of Dovedale Cottage.
The chimney-stack at the north-east end is original, and
built into the thickness of the wall. The top section is brick.
A modern fireplace on the ground floor was taken out in
March 1985 and the original segmental arch opened up.
The voussiors of this are thin slate this a triangular slate
key-stone, place centrally under a pair of corbels that
support the floor above. This is too small to have been a
cooking hearth. The fireplace above is apparently of a
similar design, but has not been reopened. There is also a
blocked fireplace in the attic that could not be inspected,
and what seemed to be a date on the slate lintel might have
been scratched in 1949.
The chimney stack at the other end of the building appears
to have been rebuilt, probably in the late 19th century.
There is no sign of a fireplace on the ground floor, where a
large kitchen / cooking hearth might be expected, indeed a
gun-loop (?) suggest there never has been one here. The
first floor has a mass-produced cast-iron fireplace of the
late 19th century, which matches one above the kitchen.
There is no hearth in the attic.
The ground floor has slate flags over all but the living
room, which has a suspended wooden floor. Outside are a
large number of sandstone slabs that might have been the
original finish, as at Glencoyne Farm down the valley. The
beam over the fireplace in the living room has an ornate
chamfer similar to those in the bedroom upstairs. There
were three corbels up to the recent work, but one was found
to be plaster and removed so the priest's hole could be
opened up. The latter is cylindrical with a low crescentic
seat, and has two openings, a high one 60 cm square
(previously a deep cupboard with sloping base the full
depth of the hole) and a low opening rather like the hatch to
a bread oven. A slate slab forms the floor, which is now
30cm up from the internal floor-level. Mrs Allen, the
previous tenant, though she could remember reading a
description of this from the late 19th century.
The gable beam in the pantry is also held on corbels, but is
undecorated. The adjoining beam (now a wall) has curved
step stops, all other beams on this floor are plain. The
staircase is meant to be 17th century, but has been heavily
restored, to the extent that only the ballusters remain. The
south-west ballustrad is modern (1949), replacing a wall
which was removed to open up the house. A Lancastrian
coat of arms is set into this wall at half landing level, but
this too has probably been moved. Over the modern lobby
(previous pantry?) is a peculiar dead space with no access
and no apparent use. The floorboards of the attic show that
there was at one time a staircase in the north corner of this,
possibly a spiral one rising from the ground floor within its
own panelled case.
The notable feature of the first floor is the magnificent
ceiling in the bedroom 1, which on closer inspection proved
to continue right over the staircase although it is now
hidden from below. The moulding is a corvetto flanked by
ovolo which runs off at the junctions. (Similar to the Piel
tower at Sizergh - now though to be 15th century). The
truss tie-beam carry five longitudinal beams, which in turn
carry single length moulded beams dividing the main
structure into squares. Each of these panels is then divided
by plain chamfered and flat stopped beams into two or three
rectangles. Some, at least, of these smallest beams are
replacements.
The whole ceiling is a rather poor fit as if it has been moved
from elsewhere and adapted to this position. The side beams
are moulded on both edges, although only one shows, while
the beams over the fireplace disappear into the plaster. Also
the squares differ in size and in the layout of the smallest
members. This type of moulding is however difficult to
alter, and it may simple have been setting out errors which
caused these discrepancies. When the attic space was in use
as living accommodation a door was cut into each of the
centre pair of trusses. Nothing now remains of this except
the rebate and catch for the latch in the king-post, and the
lap-joint and peg for the other jamb. The floor boards over
the stair are in place, revealing the position of the top flight,
but they have been taken up over the bedroom when this was
replastered at some time.
Without documentary evidence it is not possible to put a date
to the earliest building phase at Hartsop. Similar elliptical
headed windows can be found at Hornby Hall, Broughton,
and Cowmire Hall, Crosthwaite dated c1548 and 16th
century respectively, (Identical windows occur outside the
Lakes on the Grammer School, Guildford date 1552, which
one would expect to be slightly earlier). Four centred
doorways are found in the 15th or 16th century while the
ceiling similar to Sizergh which was originally thought to be
early 16th century now seems to be 15th century. The
staircase it thought to be 17th century.
The plan of Hartsop Hall has been greatly altered, but the
presence of a garderobe and first floor hall suggests a semifortified house, rather like the bastle house of the 16th
century. With such a house the main hall (bed 1 and
staircase) were used for all manner of social and domestic
functions during the day, and as sleeping quarters for most of
the household at night. Another room (bed 2 and 3) was the
retiring room, where the head of the household would sleep.
In a bastle house proper the ground floor was a lock-up for
the cattle in case of trouble, with an independent first floor
entrance to the dwelling. As it stands the ground floor of
Hartsop Hall is not of this type, and could not be defended
because of the door and many windows. The small size of
the fire in the present living room suggests that this was
domestic rather than kitchen accommodation. This would
make the present dairy and a passage the kitchen, with a
small pantry behind the 17th century stairs. The whole of
this arrangement could be an alteration, replacing the
external stair to the present door now leading to the
extension.
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this buildings
and should be informed ahead of any work that may affect
either the exterior or interior of a building.
NTSMR no: 21323
Name: Hogg house on Howe Green Farm, Hartsop,
Patterdale
NGR: NY41801284
Site Type and Period: SHEEP HOUSE, Post Medieval 1540 AD to 1900 AD
Description:
Hogg house, standing full height with original slate roof; the
internal floor timbers also present although these are clearly
recent replacements. Overall dimensions 5.8 x 8.7 meters
with walls 0.7 meters thick.
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this
buildings and should be informed ahead of any work that
may affect either the exterior or interior of a building.
NTSMR no: 21326
Name: Hogg house east of Myers Head Mine, Hartsop,
Patterdale
NGR: NY41781268
Site Type and Period: SHEEP HOUSE, Post Medieval 1540 AD to 1900 AD
Description:
Hogg house with a new corrugated roof and door. In use as
a barn, its overall dimensions 5.6 x 8.6 meters. Small
windows in west gable, now blocked. Two doors in north
wall: eastern door 1.9 meters wide and roof height (2.2
meters), obviously a modification; west door, at lower floor
level, 0.9 meters wide x 1.6 meters high. Roof tied down to
walls with iron ties. Fields walls abutt the middle of the
south wall, north-east corner and the middle of the north
wall. The latter is especially interesting as a hogg hole.
This has been constructed adjacent to the building and a
projecting stone in the wall of the building supports the
lintel for the hogg hole showing that though the field wall
abutts the building the two are apart of the same design.
Well maintained by the farmers (Lax, A. 1993).
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this
buildings and should be informed ahead of any work that
may affect either the exterior or interior of a building.
NTSMR no: 25641
Name: Farmhouse (Dovedale Cottage) Hartsop,
Patterdale
NGR: NY39831205
Site Type and Period: FARMHOUSE, Post Medieval 1540 AD to 1900 AD
Description:
The farmhouse forms part of a group of building which
surround the courtyard of Hartsop Hall Farm to which the
cottage is attached. The wing in which Dovedale Cottage
lies dates for the 18th century. The kitchen and bedroom 1
originally intercommunicated with Hartsop Hall (perhaps
providing accommodation for servants). While the sitting
room and bedroom 2 formed a separate cottage with ground
floor and first floor storerooms at the south end (the latter is
bedroom 3). All these rooms (except the storeroom) now
make up one property which is separate for Hartsop Hall.
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this buildings
and should be informed ahead of any work that may affect
either the exterior or interior of a building.
NTSMR no: 25642
Name: Threshing barn, Hartsop Hall Farm, Hartsop,
Patterdale
NGR: NY39771190
Site Type and Period: THRESHING BARN, Post
Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD
Description:
A 4 bay threshing barn which retains wain door, winnowing
door and slatestone threshing floor. The south bay is walled
off and contains a shippon / loosebox which the barn
oversails. The walls have a high proportion of water worn
stones, the quoins are edge laid side alternate, through stones
are not obvious.
padstones and is built into the wall. Purlins are carried on
blocks.
One owl hole and two ventilation slits in lower gable wall.
Stable window unframed and unglazed. Lintels to all
openings are generally of slatestone externally and one or
two wooden lintels internally.
Upper floor almost
disintegrated, two beams are missing. Lower floor joists
are recent and still sound despite the rotten floor boards
upon them. Central wooden posts on the side walls of the
lower level suggest it was at some time intended to house
four pairs of cows. These appear to be late Victorian.
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this
buildings and should be informed ahead of any work that
may affect either the exterior or interior of a building.
Has a sandstone V-ridge with slates in diminishing course,
and has recently been renewed. The cruck blades are crude
despite run off chamfers along their edges, and still exhibit
large amounts of bark. Each pair of crucks sits upon a tie,
the two south pairs are halved and crossed, but the third
carries the diamond set ridge on the blades' ends, these being
pegged twice each is also bolted through once. The crucks
were reared from the north end. The single trenched purlins
have diagonal cut ends that overlap above the blades.
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this buildings
and should be informed ahead of any work that may affect
either the exterior or interior of a building.
NTSMR no: 25644
Name: Field barn on Hartsop Hall Farm, Hartsop,
Patterdale
NGR: NY39801159
Site Type and Period: FIELD BARN, Post Medieval 1540 AD to 1900 AD
Description:
A five bay field barn at the end of a spur and hence visible
from both valleys. The materials and construction are those
expected within this area. Outside are two small fold areas.
The walls are of predominantly horizontal unweathered
stones that are occasionally brought to courses using small
slithers of slate. Quoins are made of large stones laid
flatways alternately side to side. The base of the lower
walls consists of large weathered stones.
NTSMR no: 25643
Name: Field barn on Hartsop Hall Farm, Patterdale
NGR: NY39171153
Site Type and Period: FIELD BARN, Post Medieval 1540 AD to 1900 AD
Description:
The four trusses are identified by roman numerals chiselled
into the tie and base of each principal. Those on the west
side of the barn are of two cuts, forming a long mark, while
those on the east are of a single chisel cut. The trusses are
of simple tie beam type, with a notched, unhalved apex. No
pegs could be seen to fix any of the joints. The overlapping
purlins were laid from the S end and are sleight cut to fit
into the trenched principals. Rafters are riven and in three
parts, decreasing in pitch towards the eaves. Windows, no
glazing, frames or shutters exist in any of the window
openings.
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this
buildings and should be informed ahead of any work that
may affect either the exterior or interior of a building.
Built as a field barn running down the slope, hayloft above
with stable and cowhouse on independent levels below. The
wooden floors are derelict and have almost entirely
collapsed. Presently left open, the lower levels used by
sheep for shelter - the farmer having no specific use for it.
The walls are mostly of medium sized quarried tones, but
with a fair number of water-worn cobbles. The quoins are
made of flat to square stones laid alternately side to side,
through stones occur at random. The roof construction is
sound having been renewed earlier this year. Truss B is a
tie-beam truss resting upon the wall, with a simple notched
apex which is unpegged. The double purlins are trenched
and overlap. Truss C is a cruck truss with notched apex, the
base of each blade being tensioned into the tie that rests on
NTSMR no: 25645
Name: Field barn on Hartsop Hall Farm, Hartsop,
Patterdale
NGR: NY39901123
Site Type and Period: FIELD BARN, Post Medieval 1540 AD to 1900 AD
Description:
A small field barn on the west side of the road leading over
Kirkstone Pass, between the permanent pasture below and
the heathland above. The footpath to Scandale pass runs
beside the west wall. Mainly large angular blocks have
been used, with flat laid side alternate stones to quoins.
Two tie beam trusses with simple unpegged, notched
(unhalved) apex, notched from opposite sides, and
supporting the ridge by a cut out V. The double purlins are
overlapped (the centre ones being lower) and are slightly
notched to fit over the trenched principal. The riven rafters
are in three short lengths, spanning from one purlin to the
next. The sandstone ridge and diminishing courses of slates
are torched and the whole roof structure is in good condition.
Of the doorways, two have slatestone lintels externally and
wooden internally. One seems to be an insertion, a drip
course runs over the front slate hung lintel of which there are
three. These seem to be reused floor beams. There are no
windows although the north end includes an owl hole, and
two ventilation slits in the lower section, there may once
have been two more above, but evidence is inconclusive.
The three remaining beams carry a dangerous derelict floor,
which should be replaced or removed. The cut off stumps of
a further two beams infer that the floor once ran right
through the building, but was removed when the door was
created or enlarged.
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this buildings
and should be informed ahead of any work that may affect
either the exterior or interior of a building.
NTSMR no: 25646
Name: Earth closet on Hartsop Hall Farm, Hartsop,
Patterdale
NGR: NY39941212
Site Type and Period: TOILET, Post Medieval - 1540 AD
to 1900 AD; PRIVY HOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to
1900 AD
Description:
NGR: NY39771190
Site Type and Period: HAY BARN, Post Medieval 1540 AD to 1900 AD
Description:
Inside this 8 bay barn close to farmhouse, a variety of
blocked doorways suggest it may also have included a
loosebox or stable at the south end, while the north end
remains a shippon. In the walls there is a reasonable
amount of water worn stones interspersed amongst thin
slatestone side alternate flat laid quoins. There are
ventilation holes under the eaves in the centre of each truss,
and previously three owl holes at the north end and one at
the south end.
In the roof a V-shaped sandstone ridge slates are laid in
diminishing course with a line of retaining stones along the
south-west verge. Double trenched overlapping purlins
were built up for the south end. There are supported by tiebeam trusses resting upon the walls, the principal rafters
being notched, but not halved at the apex. No numbers
were visible. The riven hardwood rafters are in good
condition despite a few slipped tiles.
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this
buildings and should be informed ahead of any work that
may affect either the exterior or interior of a building.
NTSMR no: 25648
Name: Shippon on Hartsop Hall Farm, Hartsop,
Patterdale
NGR: NY39771190
Site Type and Period: COW HOUSE, Post Medieval 1540 AD to 1900 AD
Description:
This building was originally constructed to act as a lean to
shippon built against mid 19th century barn. The walls are
made from quarried slatestone with flat laid side alternate
quoins. A variety of tatty early 20th century windows in
need of repair.
In the roof the sawn rafters support slatestone laid in
diminishing courses. The three purlins are flush with the
scientifically designed half trusses carried from wall to wall
plate.
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this
buildings and should be informed ahead of any work that
may affect either the exterior or interior of a building.
Small redundant earth closet in the corner of the garden. The
arrangement is unusual as it is built on flat ground and there
is no mucking-out hole. Quarried stone in mortar, lightly
torched Victorian roof, the eaves are restrained by metal
straps.
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this buildings
and should be informed ahead of any work that may affect
either the exterior or interior of a building.
NTSMR no:25647
Name: Hay barn on Hartsop Hall Farm, Hartsop,
Patterdale
NTSMR no: 25649
Name: Dipping shed on Hartsop Hall Farm, Hartsop,
Patterdale
NGR: NY39771190
Site Type and Period: SHED, Modern - 1981 AD to 2050
AD; SHEEP DIP, Modern - 1981 AD to 2050 AD
Description:
Built 1981 as sheep dipping shed.
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this
buildings and should be informed ahead of any work that
may affect either the exterior or interior of a building.
NTSMR no: 25686
Name: Caudalebeck Farmhouse, Hartsop, Patterdale
NGR: NY40041157
Site Type and Period: FARMHOUSE - Post Medieval 1540 AD to 1900 AD
Description:
Without reference to early maps precise details cannot be
fixed, but the main barn was apparently built in 1894 by
'GB'. The triple doors at the north end suggest this was
originally a cow house with side feeding passages and
central muck passage. In such an arrangement the hay loft
would have been carried over almost the whole length of
the barn, with just the bay with the main doors being left
open.
Lying in a fold in the landscape it is not a prominent feature
from the Kirkstone Pass road, but is conspicuous seen from
Brotherswater. This early 18th (phase A) century 3 bay
dwelling with hall, parlour (or buttery/pantry) and fine early
18th century staircase, has a second phase (phase B) of mid
18th century date when a back kitchen and pantry were
added.
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this buildings
and should be informed ahead of any work that may affect
either the exterior or interior of a building.
NTSMR no: 25687
Name: Garage at Caudalebeck Farm, Hartsop,
Patterdale
NGR: NY40071159
Site Type and Period: GARAGE - Modern - 1901 AD to
2050 AD
Description:
Felt roof; vertical weatherboard walling; fixed two light
windows; concrete floor.
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this buildings
and should be informed ahead of any work that may affect
either the exterior or interior of a building.
NTSMR no: 25688
Name: Farmyard barn at Caudalebeck Farm, Hartsop,
Patterdale
NGR: NY40031156
Site Type and Period: BARN - Post Medieval - 1894 AD
to 1900 AD
Description:
Originally used as a cowhouse, byre and hay barn and
presently used as a byre, hayloft and shelter shed this 1894
building is notable only for a segmental arch and the reset
datestone. A late Victorian five bay barn and byre with a
further two bay extension currently descends with Hartsop
Hall Farm although it stands at Caudalebeck Farm.
The two bay extension appears to be older, but was just a
product of the local farmer, rather than the mason employed
for the main barn. The crow stepped gables hold down the
verge at this the windward end, as can be seen all over this
area.
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this
buildings and should be informed ahead of any work that
may affect either the exterior or interior of a building.
NTSMR no: 25689
Name: Cottage and haybarn, Caudalebeck Farm,
Hartsop, Patterdale
NGR: NY40111162
Site Type and Period: FARM LABOURERS
COTTAGE - Post Medieval - 1600 AD to 1900 AD
Description:
In 1934 this cottage was described as ruinous, its condition
has been allowed to deteriorate, such that the gable and
north wall only stand to head height. The stone steps remain
but no sign of the internal wall or the fire (in the latter is a
pile of stone rubble).
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this
buildings and should be informed ahead of any work that
may affect either the exterior or interior of a building.
NTSMR no: 25690
Name: Dutch barn at Caudalebeck Farm, Hartsop,
Patterdale
NGR: NY40071163
Site Type and Period: BARN - Modern - 1901 AD to
2050 AD
Description:
This modern corrugated iron Dutch barn is now used as
animal shelter with a hay loft over one of three bays. The
barns dimensions are roughly 6 m by 14 m. The eaves rise
to a height of 4 m while the central ridge is roughly 5.4 m in
height. Running away from the barn is a an of level, built up
ground. This is likely to be the footprint of an earlier
temporary building, or more likely a working or storage area
of some kind.
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this buildings
and should be informed ahead of any work that may affect
either the exterior or interior of a building.
NTSMR no: 25691
Name: Field Barn at Caudalebeck Farm, Hartsop,
Patterdale
NGR: NY39971105
Site Type and Period: FIELD BARN - Post Medieval 1540 AD to 1900 AD
Description:
This small two bay cruck barn with crow-stepped gables, is
the first building passed on the north side of the Kirkstone
Pass. The early age and cruck truss remind passers-by of the
antiquity of the local settlements. Originally used as a field
barn with a hay loft over some form of animal house. It
stands within its own fold yard and has an even smaller
totally enclosed yard at the back. Presently it is used as an
open animal shelter.
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this buildings
and should be informed ahead of any work that may affect
either the exterior or interior of a building.
NTSMR no: 25693
Name: Farmhouse, Howe Green Farm, Hartsop,
Patterdale
NGR: NY40901312
Site Type and Period: FARMHOUSE, Post Medieval 1540 AD to 1900 AD
Description:
This farmhouse now governs both the immediate farm
buildings and those of its contemporary 'The How' which
stands a short distance to the north. It was built in the 17th
century as a gable entry two unit house, but has been
extended by an outshot at the rear and a barn/byre including
entry passage to the north-west.
The walls are of local slatestone rubble, visible inside the
adjoining barn but thinly rendered and limewashed on the
exterior. The kitchen extension is modern and includes
cavity wall construction. The rendered cylindrical stack
rising off a square table base is magnificent, the small
rectangular stack at the other end is added and rather feeble
by comparison but is important to punctuate the roofline
where the next house begins.
The fireplaces on the ground floor are both unattractive
modern surrounds. The ground floor is largely carpeted
with stone flags at foot of stairs, (wooden treads and risers).
Quarry tile floor in modern kitchen. On the first floor there
are wide oak boards over upright joists.
Originally this house was built with just a single gable entry
beside the large inglenook fireplace. This fire heated the
main room that extended up to a beam under which was a
timber partition that formed the wall of parlour and pantry
at the end of the house. The staircase is probably
contemporary with this first built but may have been altered
when the outshot was added at a later but indeterminate
date (a wash house was also incorporated into the kitchen
extension of 1984).
When the barn and byre were built against the house the
gable entry was still in use continuing access maintained by
an unusually wide passage. This formed a longhouse plan
with joint access to house and byre through the same main
door. When such an arrangement became inconvenient,
and as fashion dictated, a new door was made roughly in
the centre of the front facade. This was shielded by a short
partition on its left while the parlour wall was rebuilt in
stone on its right. (The former has recently been extended
to form a fully enclosed hall). At some time the smoke
hood was rebuilt as the present stack.
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this
buildings and should be informed ahead of any work that
may affect either the exterior or interior of a building.
NTSMR no: 25694
Name: Barn and byre, Howe Green Farm, Hartsop,
Patterdale
NGR: NY40881313
Site Type and Period: BARN, Post Medieval - 1540 AD
to 1900 AD; COW HOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to
1900 AD
Description:
This barn is a late 17th/early 18th century byre and hay-loft
built against the north-west wall of the earlier 17th century
gable entry house (ntsmr 25693). The wide and originally
well lit cross passage is open to the hay loft as well as
having a door through to the byre. A second byre hayloft
and store was built onto the side of it and this section
probably is of 18th century date.
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this
buildings and should be informed ahead of any work that
may affect either the exterior or interior of a building.
Most of the slatestone rubble used to build the walls seems to
have been quarried since it has crisp sharp edges; there are
many small pieces of stone interspaced with the larger
blocks. The earlier barn has very flat side alternate quoins
and a course of through stones in the gable. The quoins of
the later building include stones with water worn surfaces
and are generally deeper than those of the other building.
The roof in the barn has two plain tie beams trusses with
notched un-halved apex. There are double overlapped and
slightly trenched purlins, not laid in any particular order and
the ridge is diagonally set. Below each set of purlins a large
peg is set into the top face of the principal, elsewhere in the
country these have been associated with the setting out of the
roof trusses and there is no reason to suppose otherwise in
this case. The rafters are riven in three sections each bearing
on adjacent purlins.
The roof of byre (b) has been renewed with a modern felter
roof but the surviving principal in the outshot shows this
previously had double trenched purlins.
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this buildings
and should be informed ahead of any work that may affect
either the exterior or interior of a building.
NTSMR no: 25695
Name: Earth Closet, Howe Green Farm, Hartsop,
Patterdale
NGR: NY40871314
Site Type and Period: TOILET, Post Medieval - 1540 AD
to 1900 AD; KENNELS, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900
AD; POULTRY HOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to
1900 AD; PRIVY HOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to
1900 AD
Description:
This small stone building stands on the northern edge of the
farmyard outside the kitchen door. It is divided internally by
a thick stone wall that rises to the roof. The smaller room
(nearest the farmhouse) was an earth closet, which could be
raked out into the farmyard using a small doorway at the
lower level. An apparent roost hole under the eaves was
presumably for ventilation. The function of the other half is
uncertain especially since it was not possible to see exactly
where the floor levels were inside. This too had a small door
at farmyard level but the upper door is too small to be used
comfortably by adult humans. It may have been a full height
kennel with hen-house above.
The walls are of slatestone rubble incorporating a large
number of small split stones. The quoins have both flat and
edge laid side alternate stones. Slatestone lintels are used.
In the roof the purlins span from wall to wall with nine rough
hewn rafters. The slate is laid in diminishing courses with a
V sandstone ridge.
NTSMR no: 25696
Name: Corn drying kiln, Howe Green Farm, Hartsop,
Patterdale
NGR: NY40871315
Site Type and Period: CORN DRYING KILN, Medieval
to Post Medieval - 1500 AD to 1900 AD
Description:
This unusual survival is built into steeply sloping land just
above Howe Green Farm. It is a heavily restored but none
the less a well preserved example of a corn drying kiln, a
process which was largely abandoned on farmsteads from
the later 17th century. The drying floor itself is entirely of
slate on edge, the roof over it being supported by a collar
yoke cruck truss. The building probably dates from the
16th/early 17th century.
The walls are made of extremely angular pieces of
slatestone rubble, although staining on the surface of many
suggests the presence of iron in quite large quantities. It is
not now possible to tell if these rough uncoursed stones
were laid in lime mortar or any other binding agent, but
many of the joints now contain a gritty pointing mortar.
The quoins are of similar but larger stones laid flatways.
The surveyor in 1934 gave quite a detailed description of
the cruck blades used in this building. The present cruck
blades, however, carry the ridge purlin on their ends, and
are joined by a skew pegged collar yoke immediately below
this. This brings into question the extent of the 'renovation'
which was mentioned by the tenant farmer - he can
remember when this building was derelict and had a tree
growing out through the roof. The underside of each blade
has three V section grooves which may once have taken a
dividing partition, one was however, full of lime plaster.
The renovated roof retains the sandstone ridge and crow
stepped gables, but the top stones may be modern. The 1915
O.S. map shows the walled area to the south roofed, but this
may be a draughtsmans error.
There is a ventilation slit at the south end and an owl hole in
the south side wall, presumably to keep mice and rates at bay
before they got to the corn. This is unusual as it has a
landing ledge. The upper floor is of cobbles, the hearth floor
of stone (NB the dimensions of the hearth have altered since
1934 suggesting this has also been renovated). The kiln
floor is of slate on edge with notched ends packed against
each other on slate joints. Because these span in alternate
directions narrow slits are left through which the hot air
could rise. Dr. Brunskill suggests in his book on farm
buildings that a horse hair rug was laid over this and the corn
laid up to 10cm deep. The joists are carried by packing
pieces on a double system of lintels which are also packed,
the whole structure being of incombustible state.
Despite its apparent restoration this building is a valuable
example of an almost vanished building type, previously
common in the wetter upland regions of England. For this
reason it should be carefully preserved and under no
circumstances adapted for any modern use if it would in any
way change the fabric of the building.
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this buildings
and should be informed ahead of any work that may affect
either the exterior or interior of a building.
NTSMR no: 25697
Name: Shed, Howe Green Farm, Hartsop, Patterdale
NGR: NY40871316
Site Type and Period: GARDEN SHED, Modern - 1901
AD to 1911 AD
Description:
Commercially produced garden shed, used here as a chicken
house.
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this buildings
and should be informed ahead of any work that may affect
either the exterior or interior of a building.
NTSMR no: 25698
Name: Railway wagon, Howe Green Farm, Hartsop,
Patterdale
NGR: NY40871319
Site Type and Period: RAILWAY CARRIAGE, Modern
- 1950 AD to 2050 AD
Description:
Old British Rail railway wagon now used as kennels.
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this
buildings and should be informed ahead of any work that
may affect either the exterior or interior of a building.
NTSMR no: 25699
Name: Cottage and barn, Howe Green Farm, Hartsop,
Patterdale
NGR: NY40861321
Site Type and Period: BARN, Post Medieval - 1540 AD
to 1900 AD; FARM LABOURERS COTTAGE, Post
Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD
Description:
The abandonment of the cottage in the 19th century has
resulted in it surviving in an unaltered form right up to the
present day, it would not as it stands be appropriate for
modern living conditions. Currently is used as a store, hay
barn and shippen. A late 17th century two unit cottage
known as 'The How' which has not been lived in this
century nor probably much of the last. A barn added
shortly after the first build included a single ended passage
permitting access to the gable entrance of the house. This
has since been blocked and a front entrance made.
The walls are primarily of small quarried stones, the quoins
also being of small stones laid flatways. The front wall
bows by about 40cm towards the middle, the south wall is
also leaning. The stones of the barn are generally
somewhat larger. The alteration of the apex joint and truss
type suggest the whole building was re-roofed at one time
possible when the barn was added, or that they were erected
within a comparatively short time of each other.
The fireplace has survived in unaltered form, with fire
window, spice cupboard (Leather straps to a plain oak door)
boarding above either side of the inglenook to stop soot
falling on those within, and hooks for smoking mead within
the large hood. The hood is slightly concave to the outside,
it is made of small pieces of stone built upon a substantial
wooden bressumer. The chimney is tabled twice, once
along the roofline and again above the ridge. The chimney
and smoke hood are the most important features of the
house. The ground floor is of small slate flags, many only
40 x 20 cm, the treads of the stair are single stone slabs.
The first floor is modern although resting upon the original
chamfered beams.
The cottage was built with a gable entry into the main room
which contained the heating/cooking hearth. The outside
face of the fire bresummer and the central beam both have
run off chamfer stops. The final beam formed the top of a
flimsy wall that defined the pantry and parlour in the
remaining bay. The pantry was at the back of the house,
and included a solid stone bench along the rear wall. The
division between these two rooms was identified by a
change in wall texture and an old joist that remained in the
otherwise rebuilt floor above.
The crude mural spiral stair gives access to the sleeping loft
that would originally have been one large room. This was at
some time divided by another wall of flimsy construction.
This had been papered with old newspapers to fill in cracks
and smooth the surface, some of these remain on the tie
beams and the text of one includes the date 1870 suggesting
they were applied within a few years of that year.
When the barn was added or rebuilt in the early 18th century
an entry passage was included demonstrating the gable entry
was still in use. This tunnel must have been extremely dark
and uncomfortable to use since the slope of the hill prevented
a second external exit at the rear of the house. It is therefore,
not surprising that a new door was made in the front of the
house following popular fashion. Above the head of this door
is a small keeping hole - perhaps to put the minds of the
superstitious inhabitants at rest! At Howe Green the
opportunity was taken to rebuild the parlour wall in stone
further out beside this new door, in this case it was
considered unnecessary or financially impossible.
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this buildings
and should be informed ahead of any work that may affect
either the exterior or interior of a building.
NTSMR no: 25700
Name: Field barn, Howe Green Farm, Hartsop,
Patterdale
NGR: NY40871322
Site Type and Period: FIELD BARN, Post Medieval 1540 AD to 1900 AD
Description:
A small field barn of 19th century date built into the hillside
on the east edge of the farm complex. The walls are mostly
of quarried stone, medium size pieces and flat laid quoins,
random through stones. A slatestone lintel is used over the
lower door, other openings use the wall plate. Sawn rafters
are supported by a scientifically conceived truss with double
angle struts.
This appears to be Victorian and is
whitewashed as is often found with buildings of this date.
The local slates have a sandstone ridge and verges restrained
with stones.
The original use of the lower portion of this building seems
to have been left undefined. The sheep crawl suggest such a
use, but it is of sufficient height to take cows or horses,
although with no windows to the lower section the former is
more likely.
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this buildings
and should be informed ahead of any work that may affect
either the exterior or interior of a building.
NTSMR no: 25701
Name: Cow house, Howe Green Farm, Hartsop,
Patterdale
NGR: NY40841321
Site Type and Period: COW HOUSE, Post Medieval 1540 AD to 1900 AD
Description:
This long building seems to be a cow house or shelter shed
dating from the early 19th century. It is unusual in having
always had a gable entry. Medium sized quarried stones
and flatlaid quoins. The blocked windows have wooden
lintels, but the remainders are of stone. The main door has
three rather crude ash trunks as lintels.
Tie beam trusses with simple notched apex, these are of ash
'like most of the oak in Petterdale' as a builder who was
leaving told us. He had just finished repairing the roof that
is now in a stable condition. The riven rafters are in three
short lengths spanning between the double overlapping
notched purlins, built from the west end. Some ridge tiles
are used amongst the original sandstone ones. All verges
are restrained.
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this
buildings and should be informed ahead of any work that
may affect either the exterior or interior of a building.
NTSMR no: 25702
Name: Hay barn, Howe Green Farm, Hartsop,
Patterdale
NGR: NY40841321
Site Type and Period: HAY BARN, Post Medieval 1540 AD to 1900 AD
Description:
A 19th century five bay hay-barn originally with loosebox
and shippen at opposite ends. An additional byre has been
built onto the south end. It has double stalls integral with
the roof trusses and a passage past into the barn. The stalls
are well executed and retain the cow neck chains that slide
on vertical dowels to allow the captive animal to lie down.
The walls are of slatestone rubble with four courses of
through stones in the gable wall. The quoins stones are laid
flat. The roof trusses were obscured by hay bales but had
side alternate notched apexes with single sawn trenched
overlapping purlins, carrying seven free softwood rafters
between each truss. The local slates have a black fired day
ridge, and restrained verges. The shallow pitch of the
extension suggest it has always carried a sheet material
such as the present corrugated asbestos.
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this
buildings and should be informed ahead of any work that
may affect either the exterior or interior of a building.
NTSMR no: 26229
Name: Farmhouse, Beckstones Farm, Patterdale
NGR: NY40341498
Site Type and Period: FARMHOUSE, Post Medieval 1540 AD to 1900 AD
Description:
The farmhouse at Beckstones stands in an elevated position
facing west across the Patterdale valley. The farmhouse
forms one end of the building, and a downhouse/ shippon
with loft above forming the other end. Part of this
downhouse and loft above have been converted to form
kitchen with bedroom above probably in the 19th century.
The whole range appears to be of one build with
homogenous stonework throughout.
The farmhouse itself has the layout of a 17th century house
with firehouse and gable entry, parlour and pantry on the
ground floor. A loft above now divided into three bedrooms
and a bathroom all reached by a spiral stair in circular
stairwell at the rear of the firehouse. Although the layout
suggests a 17th century date, the detailing and height of the
building implies an 18th century date with rather vertical
window openings possibly containing vertically hung sashes,
this theory is further supported by the lack of any visible
early woodwork. It seems probable from the remaining
evidence that the structure dates from the first half of the
18th century, and with the existence of firebeam and
firewindow that there was originally a chimney hood. Lastly
to the rear of the building is a 20thcentury lean-to brick and
stone building containing wash-house and store. Constructed
of mostly quarried slate with some surface gathered stone
possible laid dry although this is difficult to determine. The
quoins however are rough long lengths of slate laid
horizontally.
surround with a mid 20th century tiled interior. The room
has a firebeam and another beam both encased, thus
appearing to date from the late 19th century although they
maybe original within. They may however have been
replacements in the original positions of the late 19th or
early 20th century. An inserted partition of the late 19th or
early 20th century forms passages along the rear and
parlour walls of the firehouse.
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this
buildings and should be informed ahead of any work that
may affect either the exterior or interior of a building.
NTSMR no: 26230
Name: Dipping shed and hay loft, Beckstones Farm,
Patterdale
NGR: NY40391520
Site Type and Period: SHEEP DIP, Post Medieval 1540 AD to 1900 AD; HAYLOFT, Post Medieval - 1540
AD to 1900 AD
Description:
This dipping shed with hay loft/ bracken store above lies on
a very steep slope behind the farmhouse. The ground floor
houses a double dipping tub. It would appear that
originally the up was undivided and stone lined. However,
c1950 the concrete partition was inserted, the stone lining
of the west side dug out to a greater depth and the single
channel relined with concrete.
Wood hurdles running from two doors to the dipping tub
would have channelled the sheep through the shed and out
into the wood pens beyond. The rest of the ground floor
seems to have been used for storing dyes and animal feed
supplements. The upper floor was probably used for
storing either hay or bracken.
The walls consist of a mixture of quarried and surface
gathered slate laid in mortar, with mainly horizontal and
flatwise quoins. The purlins that protrude through the north
gable wall have chamfered slate covers. All the openings
have wood lintels and all the doors have slate drip courses.
The east wall has two slate-lined keeping holes cut in, in
the north bay.
Constructed of old local slates laid in diminishing courses
with sandstone ridge tiles, some having been replaced in
clay. The chimney stacks are constructed of red sandstone
and probably date from the first half of the 19th century.
The underlying structure consists of two tie beam trusses
notched but not pegged at the apex. The principle rafters are
hardwood and probably original as are the purlins, the tie
beams to the trusses are however softwood and imply that
the roof has been rebuilt in the 19th century, this may have
involved heightening the house or altering the roof pitch.
The rafters are all sawn and the slates torched underneath.
The chimney stack rising from the fireroom is visible but it is
not possible to ascertain whether there are remains of a
corbelled chimney stack.
The roof is supported by an ash tie-beam truss with double
purlins entrenched in single lengths over each bay. The ash
has been sawn but adze finished. All the timbers over the
north bay have been recently replaced. In addition the
north bay is supported by two softwood upper king post
trusses. At the roof beams, purlins and rafters are sawn and
laid upright. The roof has been heavily and recently retorched possibly at a similar time as the concrete tub was
inserted. The roof slates are old and chamfered and laid in
diminishing courses. The hayloft was supported by three
beams just above the level of the door lintels, the fourth
beam has been cut out.
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this
buildings and should be informed ahead of any work that
may affect either the exterior or interior of a building.
This has a firewindow, red sandstone flagged floor and
chimney breast probably inserted in the early 19th century,
which contains an early 19th century dressed sandstone fire
NTSMR no: 26231
Name: Former downhouse,
Howe
Green
Farm,
Hartsop, Patterdale
NGR: NY40331497
Site Type and Period: Farmhouse, Post Medieval - 1540
AD to 1900 AD
Description:
What stands and comprises this building is most probably in
fact the downhouse end of a 17th century farmhouse.
Fragments of the farmhouse are incorporated and indeed
make up most of the north-east wall of the present building.
The line of the farmhouse can be traced in the area to the
north-east of the building and appears to have had a gable
entry, which is in fact the blocked opening in the north-east
wall of the present building. This wall also incorporates a
spice cupboard.
hurdles and partitions. The outshot at the north end of the
threshing barn seems to have been used as a granary or food
store at the upper level, with a pigsty and small yard
beneath.
The downhouse that stands today has a loft originally
reached from the farmhouse by a blocked door at 1st floor
level and two looseboxed beneath. The north-west wall
displays many blocked windows, implying this was in fact
used as living in accommodation for the main house,
probably a bedroom above a back kitchen or dairy. It was
most certainly added at a later date to the now demolished
farmhouse, probably in the late 17th or early 18th century.
The threshing barn has a softwood, sawn early 20th century
plank floor. There are no divisions nor partitions. The
drainage channels and passageways which follow through
from the doors, in the shippon and loose box are cobbled.
The area directly each side of the partitions is raised
approximated 15-20 cm. The floor was not seen. The stall
partitions in the shippon and loose box are made wholly of
beaded hardwood panels (?ash) and hardwood chamfered
posts with curved stops.
Mostly quarried with some surface gathered slate laid in
mortar. There are exterior slate lintels to the downstairs
windows and various slate drip courses along the south-west
gable. The north-west gable, as has been said, is mostly
composed of the south-west gable of the original farmhouse
and retains the quoins for the farmhouse up to about 1 1/2
metres above ground level, the quoins are fairly long uneven
blocks of slate; from 1 1/2 metres up the quoins change to
face the downhouse where the wall has been rebuilt,
probably this century. Both east and west walls retain their
lime rendered walls (now in a poor state of repair).
The roof structure, probably of 18th century date, consists of
one hardwood tie beam truss with angle struts, that on the
east side removed. The truss is made of reused timbers, the
tie beam being a reused floor beam, chamfered with a flat
stop at the west end. Each pitch has 2 purlins (ash, except
where replaced in sawn softwood over the south bay - the top
2 purlins). The rafters are mostly sawn and upright, however
there are some reused riven rafters and the slates are torched.
Structure is covered in local slate with sandstone ridge tiles
and some cast iron guttering.
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this buildings
and should be informed ahead of any work that may affect
either the exterior or interior of a building.
NTSMR no: 26232
Name: Threshing barn, shippon, grain store and pig sty,
Beckstones Farm, Patterdale
NGR: NY40331495
Site Type and Period: COW HOUSE, Post Medieval 1540 AD to 1900 AD; PIGSTY, Post Medieval - 1540 AD
to 1900 AD, GRAIN WAREHOUSE, Post Medieval 1540 AD to 1900 AD; THRESHING BARN, Post
Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD
Description:
This building is situated opposite the farmhouse. The upper
floor of the main section has a pair of wain doors leading to
the threshing floor, with a winnowing door opposite. Under
this lies a shippon and loose box, both of which still retain
hardwood stanchions,
The shippon had 3 double stalls and 3 middle stalls, the
loose- box would have stabled 3 horses. Formerly it had 2
hanging shelved above the window in the south gable wall,
for which only the supports remain. The floor above the
shippon is supported not only by an east-west bean, but also
by two beams running longitudinally south-west, and
extending through over the loose box. Nearly all the
timbers appear to be re-used; the east-west beam was
probably once a cruck
The granary / foodstore in the outshot has a clean hardwood
boarded floor and whitewashed walls. The pigsty beneath
has a cobbled floor and hayrick on the north wall It has not
been whitewashed. The pen outside the pigsty was
cobbled, as was the entire yard in front of the shippon
doors.
The walls of the barn and granary consist of a mixture of
quarried and surface gathered slate laid dry. The south
gable is decorated with 4 slate string courses running the
whole width wall, the lowest acting also as a drip course for
the window. The quoins are rough-cut and laid irregularly.
The longitudinal walls of the barn each have 7 slits inserted
just below each eaves level. The loose box has three
feeding shoots cut in the north wall in between the existing
Brathay slate partitions.
The roof over the threshing barn is supported by 3
hardwood adzed tie-beams with twin angle struts. The
hardwood purlins were laid in single lengths over each bay.
The sawn softwood rafters are laid horizontally. The roof
over the granary has softwood, sawn, upright purlins and
rafters Both roofs have been heavily torched. The old roof
slates are chamfered and laid in diminishing courses, topped
with sandstone ridge tiles.
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this buildings
and should be informed ahead of any work that may affect
either the exterior or interior of a building.
function of this building was determined from the plan.
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this
buildings and should be informed ahead of any work that
may affect either the exterior or interior of a building.
NTSMR no: 26233
Name: Earth Closet, Beckstones Farm, Patterdale
NGR: NY40321499
Site Type and Period: PRIVY HOUSE, Post Medieval 1540 AD to 1900 AD
Description:
This earth closet lies to the north-west of the farmhouse on a
steep slope leading down to Deepdale Beck. The walls are
constructed of a mixture of quarried and surface gathered
slate with large horizontal flat-wise quoins. The north gable
wall appears one to have been rendered. A mucking-out hole
is situated in the north wall at the base of the building. The
inferior is plastered and painted red, although this in now
peeling badly. No interior fittings remain. The window
retains signs of having been closed. The door is missing.
NTSMR no: 26235
Name: Hay and threshing barn with shippon,
Beckstones Farm, Patterdale
NGR: NY40581431
Site Type and Period: COW HOUSE, Post Medieval 1540 AD to 1900 AD; THRESHING BARN, Post
Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD; HAY BARN, Post
Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD
Description:
This fairly large barn probably dates fromt he latter half of
the 18th century and is approximately 3/4 mils south of
Beckstones Farm. It forms a group with ntsmr 26234
known as Dubhow, probably the site of a farmstead, the
farmhouse now demolished. Four bays long, the barn
consists of a large hay storage barn with former threshing
floor in the 2nd bay from the east; as the structure is built at
right angles to the hillside, the west two bays are two
storeys high with a shippon under a hay storage area.
The roof is supported by a ridge and sawn upright softwood
rafters. The old slate on the roof, laid in diminishing
courses, have all been chamfered and hung. The ridge is
topped with slate tiles. No other detail remains.
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this buildings
and should be informed ahead of any work that may affect
either the exterior or interior of a building.
Constructed of mostly surface gathered slate, the walls
appear to have been laid dry from the exterior, however the
interior displays a fair amount of mortar. The quoins are
large irregular blocks of slate with boulder foundations.
The west gable and north wall are in fairly original
conditions, the east gable has had a window inserted and
the south wall has been largely rebuilt with mortar, when
the winnowing door was removed and replaced by a recess.
NTSMR no: 26234
Name: Former hay barn and shippon, Beckstones Farm,
Patterdale
NGR: NY40561436
Site Type and Period: COW HOUSE, Post Medieval 1540 AD to 1900 AD; HAY BARN, Post Medieval - 1540
AD to 1900 AD
Description:
This now derelict former hay barn and shippon is situated
approximately ¾ mile from the farmhouse, on a small
plateau known as Dubhow, adjacent to building ntsmr 26325.
The 1859 edition of the OS map shows both barns standing
and roofed whereas by 1977 ntsmr 26235 was recorded as
ruined.
From the position and plan of these buildings and the fact
that this site has a place name, it seems likely that at a date
prior to 1859, a farmhouse called Dubhow was in existence
nearby – there are however no material traces. At this time,
the north gable and west wall are incomplete, the south gable
and east wall stand to eaves height, the roof is missing. The
Three tie beam trusses (probably ash) notched at the apex
support two sets of purlins on each slope, although many of
the timbers are reused, they are probably original to the
building. The north slope has adzed rafters and torched
slates, however the south slope has been replaced by
corrugated asbestos and has lost its rafters, this probably
happened when the south wall was rebuilt - mid 20th
century. The north slope has old slated and sandstone ridge
tiles.
Threshing Floor - part of slate floor remains. Shippon hardwood shippon stalls with chamfered vertical posts and
a cobbled floor can be seen. Slate steps lead up to the
threshing floor and hay storage barn above. The floor of
the hay storage area over the shippon is supported on
hardwood beams and is composed of rough lengths of
timber and bracken.
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this
buildings and should be informed ahead of any work that
may affect either the exterior or interior of a building.
NTSMR no: 26236
Name: Hay barn and shippon, Beckstones Farm,
Patterdale
NGR: NY40071425
Site Type and Period: COW HOUSE, Post Medieval 1540 AD to 1900 AD; HAY BARN, Post Medieval - 1540
AD to 1900 AD
Description:
This extremely handsome barn stands on the west side of the
Kirkstone Pass road between Hartsop and Patterdale,
probably dating from the late 17th century or early 18th
century, it has particularly fine crow stepped gables. Built in
two stages, the original and main part of the building is Lshaped, the west end being a hay barn with former threshing
floor (winnowing door now blocked), the east end being a
shippon with hay loft above. The second building stage
involved the addition of a small almost square lean to on the
north-west corner wither in the 18th or early 19th century as
a store or loose box, cheeks were probably added at this time
to protect the wain door.
Management Recommendations:
The Buildings and Landscapes Curator should be consulted
for advice regarding the future management of this buildings
and should be informed ahead of any work that may affect
either the exterior or interior of a building.