High Wray House is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1986. House. 4 related planning applications.

High Wray House

WRENN ID
moated-chalk-flax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Country
England
Date first listed
4 December 1986
Type
House
Source
Historic England listing

Description

High Wray House is a house dating to 1728, with subsequent alterations and 19th-century additions. The house is built of roughcast stone with a slate roof. The north-west facade has five bays; the first bay is higher and has a single-storey section above the cellar, set into the ground slope, with gables that break forward and correspond to the first floor of the main house, and incorporates a projecting single-storey wing with asymmetrical gables between the first and second bays. The ground floor includes a sash window with glazing bars in the second bay, and casement windows in the third and fourth bays. The first floor has a sash window with glazing bars and margin lights in the first bay, while the other bays feature 20th-century cross-mullioned wooden windows, chamfered internally and with applied lead strips to the glazing, said to be copies of original windows. The house has corbelled gable-end stacks with round shafts, and a similar cross-axial stack with two round shafts. An entrance to the third bay contains a gabled slate slab porch and a two-panel door, with a bell on a bracket above. The north-east facade is of one storey and three bays, featuring sash windows with glazing bars and margin lights, and paired doors to the central entrance which is accessed by steps. A single-storey gabled wing is present on the south-west facade, with a window to the north-west, and on the south-east facade, a projecting three-bay gable includes sash windows with glazing bars, with a margin light to the third bay. The second bay of the ground floor has an entrance with a panelled door, and small flanking casement windows. There is a gable-end stack with a round shaft.

Inside, there are some chamfered beams and iron hooks in the kitchen ceiling. A fielded panel spice cupboard door, an early 18th-century six-panel door, and a three-pane fielded panel door with a narrow central panel are also present. The cellar has slate shelves and a water pump is in the wing. The first floor has two fielded panel doors and some plank and muntin partitioning which is not original. A wooden spiral stair leads to the attic, which has a fishbone roof, a truss with a wooden hook, and a wide-boarded door with wooden studs, a latch, and strap hinges.

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