Listed buildings in Cumrew

Cumrew is a civil parish in the Carlisle district of Cumbria, England. It contains eleven listed buildings that are recorded in the
National Heritage List for England. All the listed buildings are designated at Grade II, the lowest of the three grades, which is
applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest".[1] The parish contains the village of Cumrew and is otherwise
rural. Its listed buildings consist of houses, farmhouses, farm buildings, and a church.

Buildings
 Name and
Photograph Date Notes
location

The store originated as a house and barn. It has very

thick sandstone walls and a green slate roof. There are
two storeys, two bays, a doorway and a small window
Store, Cunrew
Late 16th with chamfered surrounds, and a later cart entrance. At
Farm
— century the rear is a single-bay lean-to extension with
54.84595°N
(probable) mullioned windows. The store is built partly from
2.70154°W
material formerly in the medieval church, and on the
front are fragments of dogtooth and zigzag decorated
stone.[2][3]

The barn incorporates the core of the original manor

house, and it was extensively extended in the 18th
Barns adjoining
Late 16th century. It is in sandstone with green slate roof, and
Manor House
— century has numerous bays. The original entrance has a
54.87106°N
(probable) chamfered surround with a chamfered and shaped
2.70761°W
lintel. The other openings include doorways, cart
entrances, windows, loft doors, and ventilation slits.[4]

The farmhouse has rendered walls with quoins and a

mixed slate roof with coped gables. There are two
Cumrew
storeys and three bays, and a lower recessed
Farmhouse and Late 17th
extension of two storeys and two bays. The doorway
barn — century
has a quoined surround, and the windows are sashes
54.84647°N (probable)
with plain stone surrounds. The barn, at right angles, is
2.70119°W
in sandstone, and has doorways, windows, and a
blocked cart entrance.[5]

Originally a house with an 18th-century attached barn.

Barn, Cunrew
Late 17th They are in sandstone with roofs of mixed slate. The
Farm
— century house has two storeys, both the house and the barn
54.84606°N
(probable) have three bays, and the barn has quoins. There is a
2.70163°W
variety of openings, most of which are filled.[2][6]

The barn has a cruck frame, the walls are in

Cruck-framed
sandstone, and it has a slate roof. The barn is in a
barn at Helme Late 17th to
single storey, and has three bays. It contains doorways
Farm — early 18th
and ventilation slits, and has extensions in corrugated
54.84976°N century
iron. Inside there are two pairs of relatively complete
2.70464°W
cruck frames.[7]

Cumrew House — Early 18th The house and adjoining outbuildings are in sandstone.
and outbuildings century The house was extended in 1753 and in 1891–92. It is
54.84689°N (probable) on a chamfered plinth with quoins, a string course, a
2.70121°W cornice, and a green slate roof with coped gables.
There are two storeys, six bays, a double-depth plan,
four bays to the rear, and a single-storey wing to the
left with a battlemented corbelled parapet. The
doorway has a moulded architrave, an inscribed and
dated frieze, and a moulded cornice. The windows are
 sashes in architraves. The outbuildings enclose a
courtyard on three sides, and include stables, barns,
and a single-storey cottage.[8]

Walls and gate The walls and gate bays are in sandstone. The wall to
piers, Cumrew the north of the drive has a round coping, and to the
House — 18th century south it is on a chamfered plinth with chamfered
54.84682°N coping. The gate piers are square with pyramidal
2.70224°W caps.[9]

A sandstone farmhouse on a chamfered plinth with

quoins and a green slate roof. There are two storeys
Croftlands
and three bays. The doorway has an alternate block
54.86991°N — 1805
surround and a keyed entablature, and the windows
2.70745°W
are sashes with raised surrounds. At the rear is a
round-headed stair window.[10]

A sandstone farmhouse with quoins and a slate roof.

Albyfield There are two storeys and three bays. The doorway
Early 19th
54.86478°N — has an alternate block surround and a keyed
century
2.70523°W entablature, and the windows are sashes with raised
surrounds.[11]

The former vicarage is in sandstone with a Welsh slate

roof, and has one storey with an attic, and two bays.
Vicarage
The doorway has a pilastered surround, a moulded
54.84603°N — 1834
cornice, and a fanlight. The windows are sashes with
2.70196°W
raised plain surrounds, and there is a flat-roofed
dormer.[12]

The church, on a medieval site, is in sandstone with

angle buttresses and a green slate roof with coped
gables. It consists of a three-bay nave, a single-bay
St Mary's Church
chancel, a north vestry, and a northwest tower. The
54.84561°N 1890
tower has three stages, incorporating a porch, and has
2.70124°W
a recessed doorway with a pointed arch, a projecting
stair turret in the angle between nave and tower, and a
corbelled and battlemented parapet.[2][13]

References

Citations
1. Historic England
2. Hyde & Pevsner (2010), p. 319
3. Historic England & 1087578
4. Historic England & 1335600
5. Historic England & 1087577
6. Historic England & 1335602
7. Historic England & 1393975
8. Historic England & 1087576
9. Historic England & 1335601
10. Historic England & 1087575
11. Historic England & 1067792
12. Historic England & 1087580
13. Historic England & 1087579
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