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
NY 14 SE BLENNERHASSET & TORPENHOW Blennerhasset (NY 17410 41180)
5/11D Gas house north-east of Mechi Farmhouse
GV II
Gas house and smithy now farm store. 1863-4 for William Lawson of Brayton. Polychrome rubble walls with flush red-sandstone quoins, under Welsh slate roof and yellow-brick chimney stack. l½ storeys, double span, with tall square tapering chimney to centre rear. Plain boarded doors and blocked windows, all with red-sandstone surrounds,under round-headed louvred-vent openings. Left return wall has large C20 sliding plank door. Coal-fired furnaces provided gas for the farm and the village of Blennerhasset. William Lawson in Ten Years of Gentleman Farming, 1874, p.153, states that the gas was switched on on lst April 1865, Forms part of a model farm group and listed for GV with Mechi Farmhouse and farm buildings.
Listing NGR: NY1740941178
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