Description

NY 15 SE HOLME ABBEY Abbeytown

6/12 Abbey Shop and Abbeytown Library

G.V. II

Parish rooms now shop and Library. Late C19 with 1973 alterations, incorporating part of the guest house of Holme Cultram Abbey. Squared blocks of red sandstone in irregular courses. Graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and kneelers; stone chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 4 bays, with single-bay extension to left under common roof; angled single-storey passage extension to right, joining with the porch of the former Abbey, is listed with Church of St Mary. Plank doors in stone surrounds. Hollow-chamfered 2-light stone mullioned windows. Shop extension has C20 windows including large shop window in end wall left. Rear wall of library has part of a chamfered plinth and lower courses of earlier stonework which could have been a building in the outer court of the Abbey. Listed partly for G.V. with Church of St Mary.

Listing NGR: NY1769250799

External Links

• Wikidata Q26612559

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990