Appendix 2 - Gazetteer of historic buildingsSummary 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: 20147Name: Hartsop Hall Farm, Hartsop, PatterdaleNGR: NY39831205Site 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 ADDescription: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: 20200Name: Caudalebeck Farm, Hartsop, PatterdaleNGR: NY40061157Site 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 ADDescription: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: 20520Name: Beckstones Farm, Patterdale, UllswaterNGR: NY40341498Site 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: 20201Name: Howe Green Farm, UllswaterNGR: NY40901312Site 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: 20625Name: Hartsop Hall Farmhouse, Hartsop, PatterdaleNGR: NY40281136Site Type and Period: HALL - Medieval - 1400 AD to 1500 AD, FARMSTEAD – Post Medieval – 1700 AD to 1900 ADDescription: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 north-east 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 semi-fortified 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: 21323Name: Hogg house on Howe Green Farm, Hartsop, PatterdaleNGR: NY41801284Site Type and Period: SHEEP HOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 ADDescription: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: 21326Name: Hogg house east of Myers Head Mine, Hartsop, PatterdaleNGR: NY41781268Site Type and Period: SHEEP HOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 ADDescription: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: 25641Name: Farmhouse (Dovedale Cottage) Hartsop, PatterdaleNGR: NY39831205Site 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: 25642Name: Threshing barn, Hartsop Hall Farm, Hartsop, PatterdaleNGR: NY39771190Site Type and Period: THRESHING BARN, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 ADDescription: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.

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: 25643Name: Field barn on Hartsop Hall Farm, PatterdaleNGR: NY39171153Site Type and Period: FIELD BARN, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 ADDescription:

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 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.

NTSMR no: 25644Name: Field barn on Hartsop Hall Farm, Hartsop, PatterdaleNGR: NY39801159Site Type and Period: FIELD BARN, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 ADDescription: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.

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.

NTSMR no: 25645Name: Field barn on Hartsop Hall Farm, Hartsop, PatterdaleNGR: NY39901123Site Type and Period: FIELD BARN, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 ADDescription: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, PatterdaleNGR: NY39941212Site Type and Period: TOILET, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD; PRIVY HOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 ADDescription:

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:25647Name: Hay barn on Hartsop Hall Farm, Hartsop, PatterdaleNGR: NY39771190Site Type and Period: HAY BARN, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 ADDescription: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 tie-beam 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: 25648Name: Shippon on Hartsop Hall Farm, Hartsop, PatterdaleNGR: NY39771190Site 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.

NTSMR no: 25649Name: Dipping shed on Hartsop Hall Farm, Hartsop, PatterdaleNGR: NY39771190Site Type and Period: SHED, Modern - 1981 AD to 2050 AD; SHEEP DIP, Modern - 1981 AD to 2050 ADDescription: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: 25686Name: Caudalebeck Farmhouse, Hartsop, PatterdaleNGR: NY40041157Site Type and Period: FARMHOUSE - Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 ADDescription:

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: 25687Name: Garage at Caudalebeck Farm, Hartsop, Patterdale

NGR: NY40071159Site 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: 25688Name: Farmyard barn at Caudalebeck Farm, Hartsop, PatterdaleNGR: NY40031156Site Type and Period: BARN - Post Medieval - 1894 AD to 1900 ADDescription: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.

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.

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: 25689Name: Cottage and haybarn, Caudalebeck Farm, Hartsop, PatterdaleNGR: NY40111162Site Type and Period: FARM LABOURERS COTTAGE - Post Medieval - 1600 AD to 1900 ADDescription:

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: 25690Name: Dutch barn at Caudalebeck Farm, Hartsop, PatterdaleNGR: NY40071163Site Type and Period: BARN - Modern - 1901 AD to 2050 ADDescription:

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: 25691Name: Field Barn at Caudalebeck Farm, Hartsop, PatterdaleNGR: NY39971105Site Type and Period: FIELD BARN - Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 ADDescription: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: 25693Name: Farmhouse, Howe Green Farm, Hartsop, PatterdaleNGR: NY40901312Site Type and Period: FARMHOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 ADDescription: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: 25694Name: Barn and byre, Howe Green Farm, Hartsop, PatterdaleNGR: NY40881313Site Type and Period: BARN, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD; COW HOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 ADDescription: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.

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: 25695Name: Earth Closet, Howe Green Farm, Hartsop, PatterdaleNGR: NY40871314Site 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 ADDescription: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.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: 25696Name: Corn drying kiln, Howe Green Farm, Hartsop, PatterdaleNGR: NY40871315Site Type and Period: CORN DRYING KILN, Medieval to Post Medieval - 1500 AD to 1900 ADDescription: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: 25697Name: Shed, Howe Green Farm, Hartsop, PatterdaleNGR: NY40871316Site Type and Period: GARDEN SHED, Modern - 1901 AD to 1911 ADDescription: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: 25698Name: Railway wagon, Howe Green Farm, Hartsop, PatterdaleNGR: NY40871319Site Type and Period: RAILWAY CARRIAGE, Modern - 1950 AD to 2050 ADDescription: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: 25699Name: Cottage and barn, Howe Green Farm, Hartsop, PatterdaleNGR: NY40861321Site 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: 25700Name: Field barn, Howe Green Farm, Hartsop, PatterdaleNGR: NY40871322Site Type and Period: FIELD BARN, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 ADDescription: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: 25701Name: Cow house, Howe Green Farm, Hartsop, PatterdaleNGR: NY40841321Site Type and Period: COW HOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 ADDescription: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, PatterdaleNGR: NY40841321Site Type and Period: HAY BARN, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 ADDescription: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: 26229Name: Farmhouse, Beckstones Farm, PatterdaleNGR: NY40341498Site Type and Period: FARMHOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 ADDescription: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.

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.

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 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: 26230Name: Dipping shed and hay loft, Beckstones Farm, PatterdaleNGR: NY40391520Site Type and Period: SHEEP DIP, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD; HAYLOFT, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 ADDescription: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.

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 re-torched 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.

NTSMR no: 26231Name: Former downhouse, Howe Green Farm, Hartsop, PatterdaleNGR: NY40331497Site Type and Period: Farmhouse, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 ADDescription: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.

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.

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: 26232Name: Threshing barn, shippon, grain store and pig sty, Beckstones Farm, PatterdaleNGR: NY40331495Site 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 ADDescription: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,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 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.

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.

NTSMR no: 26233Name: Earth Closet, Beckstones Farm, PatterdaleNGR: NY40321499Site 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.

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.

NTSMR no: 26234Name: Former hay barn and shippon, Beckstones Farm, PatterdaleNGR: NY40561436Site Type and Period: COW HOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD; HAY BARN, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 ADDescription: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 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: 26235Name: Hay and threshing barn with shippon, Beckstones Farm, PatterdaleNGR: NY40581431Site 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 ADDescription: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.

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.

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: 26236Name: Hay barn and shippon, Beckstones Farm, PatterdaleNGR: NY40071425Site Type and Period: COW HOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD; HAY BARN, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 ADDescription: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 L-shaped, 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.