Gas House North East Of Mechi Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1986. Gas house, smithy.
Gas House North East Of Mechi Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sombre-ember-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1986
- Type
- Gas house, smithy
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The gas house, located north-east of Mechi Farmhouse, was built between 1863 and 1864 for William Lawson of Brayton. It features polychrome rubble walls with flush red-sandstone quoins, topped with a Welsh slate roof and a yellow-brick chimney stack. The building is one and a half storeys tall with a double span and has a tall square tapering chimney at the centre rear. The exterior includes plain boarded doors and blocked windows, all framed with red-sandstone surrounds, and round-headed louvred-vent openings. The left return wall has a large 20th-century sliding plank door. The coal-fired furnaces inside provided gas for both the farm and the village of Blennerhasset. William Lawson noted in "Ten Years of Gentleman Farming" in 1874 that the gas was switched on for the first time on April 1, 1865. This gas house is part of a model farm group and is listed for its group value with Mechi Farmhouse and the associated farm buildings.
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