Description

ULVERSTON

SD27NE RAKE LANE, Dragley Beck 626-1/1/145 Dragley Beck Cottage 20/06/72

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Also known as: Sir John Barrow's Cottage RAKE LANE. House, now shop with accommodation above. C17, altered. Painted roughcast with slate roof replacing thatch. Single storey with loft and with outshut at rear. To each side of the doorway there is a window with plain reveals, slate sill, and 3-light timber casement: the left-hand window is at a slightly higher level. The doorway has plain reveals. The right-hand (east) gable has a brick chimney cap with diagonal shafts. The left-hand gable wall is blank. Against the right-hand gable wall are 2 single-storey outhouses of unequal size, with monopitch roofs which meet at a central valley. Above is a blocked attic window of 2 lights with chamfered timber mullions. The rear wall has low eaves and 3 windows with plain reveals. INTERIOR: to the left of the doorway is a solid masonry wall. The left-hand room has sawn timber ceiling joists and an access hatch leading to the attic. The right-hand room has 2 roughly chamfered main beams, one probably originally a firehood bressumer. The fireplace has a timber cornice mantel. Above is a marble tablet with an inscription which is said to read: 'In this humble cottage, the best memorial of his enterprising spirit, industry and perseverance, was born on the 19th June, 1764, Sir John Barrow, Baronet, L.L.D., F.R.S., who accompanied Lord Macartney's Embassy to China; who travelled far into the interior of Africa, and who was for forty years (embracing the whole period of the last war), Secretary of the Admiralty. He died in London on the 23rd November, 1848, in the 85th year of his age. Remarkable for the vigour of his mind, as his latter works abundantly testify, and scarcely less remarkable for the activity of his body. SOLI DEO GLORIA.' (Rimmer JS: The Story of Ulverston: Ulverston: 1925-: 26).

Listing NGR: SD2895477634

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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