Low Wood Nook And Former Stables is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1986. House, stables.

Low Wood Nook And Former Stables

WRENN ID
tenth-pillar-quill
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Country
England
Date first listed
3 January 1986
Type
House, stables
Source
Historic England listing

Description

NY 14 SE BLENNERHASSET & TORPENHOW

5/7 Low Wood Rook and former stables

II

House and stables used in C19 as inn. Dated and inscribed over entrance J. & E.A. (Addison) 1663; with extensive C18 alterations and additions. Painted rendered walls on chamfered plinth under graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and stone chimney stacks. 2 storeys with attic, 2 bays with lower 2-bay extension and stables under common roof to left. c20 door in original C17 surround under inscribed lintel with hoodmould dated on the label stops. Double sash windows in late C18 painted stone surrounds. Central pointed attic window is now boarded. Extension has sash windows in painted stone surrounds, those on upper floor with glazing bars. Former stable has plank door and casement windows, some boarded, all in painted stone surrounds. Birthplace of Thomas Addison, later of London, who gave the ceiling for Torpenhow Church in 1689 and was a relative of Joseph Addison the essayist, see C.R. Hudleston & R.S. Boumphrey, Cumberland Families & Heraldry, 1978, pl.

Listing NGR: NY1931040556

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