Description

LOWESWATER LOWESWATER
NY 12 SW
13/172 Miresyke Farmhouse
and barn adjoining
G.V. II
Farmhouse, now private house, and barn. Dated internally 1691 with C18 and C19
alterations. Roughcast walls, under graduated greenslate roof with roughcast
chimney stacks. Barn of incised render, under corrugated-iron roof. 2 storeys,
3 bays with lower right barn. Separating cross passage has panelled door within
C19 rendered porch, which partly covers the lintel dated and inscribed, but very
weathered, (?)M 1710(?). Sash windows in C19 painted stone surrounds. Barn has
C20 ground-floor casement windows and slit vents on 3 levels. Rear of house has
outshuts with early C18 flat stone-mullioned windows. Rear of barn has outshut
with upper-floor granary doorway now boarded over, which gives the appearance of
a spinning gallery. Interior of house has inglenook, the heck partition with
supporting C18 fluted pilaster; salt and spice cupboard recesses flanking a
moulded stone fireplace dated and inscribed IM 1691. Boxed-in ceiling beams.
Built-in panelled court cupboard dated and inscribed I. & I.M. 1691. Panelled
doors throughout, those into bedrooms with painted friezes, that to left of
huntsman and hounds chasing a deer and to right inscribed John & Mary Mirehouse
1726.

Listing NGR: NY1222122489

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26612311

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  For the Record
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)