Above Derwent is a civil parish in the Borough of Allerdale in Cumbria, England. It contains 16 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 is in the Lake District National Park, and it includes the settlements of Braithwaite, Thornthwaite, Portinscale, Stair and Little Town. Parts of the parish are agricultural, and much of it consists of fells and mountains. All the listed buildings are in the settlements and the valleys. Most of them are, or originated as, houses, farmhouses, and farm buildings. The other listed buildings include churches, war memorial and a bridge.
Originally a farmhouse, later used as a private house, it is roughcast on a chamferedplinth with a green slate roof. There are two storeys and four bays, and in the front is a 20th-century wooden porch. The windows are sashes with plain reveals.[2]
The house is in rubble with a stone slab roof and is in two storeys. The main part has three bays, there is a rear outshut, and at the front is a projecting former bakehouse and workshop. The windows are in deep reveals, one is a sliding sash window, and the others are later replacements.[3]
The house is in rendered stone with a Westmorlandslate roof, in two storeys and three bays. The doorway to the right has a moulded doorcase and a lintel inscribed with initials and the date. Some of the windows on the front are horizontal sashes, and also on the front is a panel inscribed with the name of the house. At the rear is a gabled stair tower, and inside the house is a bressumer.[4]
A linear range of domestic and agricultural buildings built in local rubble, boulders, and slate, with Westmorland green slate roofs, dating from the 17th to the 19th centuries. The original part is a long house with accommodation for people and for animals. Attached to this is an 18th-century farmhouse, rendered, in two storeys and three bays, and a 19th-century barn. Inside the long house is n inglenook.[5]
A farmhouse and attached barn, the house is in rendered stone, and the barn is in stone, both under a green slate roof. The house has two storeys and three bays, a stone porch with side seats, and sash windows. The barn to the right has doorways, including a loft doorway, and ventilation slits. Inside the house is an inglenook.[6]
A roughcast farmhouse with a green slate roof, in two storeys and three bays. The windows are sashes, and on the front of the house is a 20th-century open porch.[7]
Originally a house, later used as a hotel, it was extended in 1902. The hotel is built in Skiddawslaterubble with sandstone dressings and a green slate roof. The building is in two storeys with four bays and additional bays to the right. On the front is a slated verandah porch that is flanked by bay windows with mullions on the ground floor and casement windows above. Most of the other windows are casements, but there is one original sash window. Inside the building is an inglenook.[11]
Originally a farmhouse with an adjoining barn and stable, it was later converted into a private house. The former house is roughcast, the former barn is in Skiddawslaterubble, and the roof is in green slate. The house has two storeys, three bays, and sash windows. Some of the windows in the former barn are sashes, and others are casements.[12]
The farmhouse is roughcast with quoins and a green slate roof. It has two storeys and three bays. The windows are sashes; they and the doorway have painted stone surrounds.[13]
The church was extended in 1853. It is in slaterubble and has a roof of green slate. The church consists of a nave with a west porch, transepts, and a chancel with a north vestry. There is a west bellcote, and the windows are lancets.[8][15]
The schoolroom was added in 1887, and has since been used as a meeting room. The buildings are roughcast with green slate roofs. The church has a combined three-baynave and chancel, a south porch, tall round-headed windows, and a twin bellcote at the west end. The former school is in one storey with two bays and casement windows. On the wall is an inscribed plaque.[16][17]
The war memorial stands in a patch of woodland, and is in stone. It consists of a Celtic Cross on a tapering shaft, on a plinth and a base. The cross head has a carved monogram, Greek key design, and knotwork decoration. On the lower art of the shaft and the plinth are an inscription and the names of those lost in the First World War, and there is a slate tablet with the names of those lost in the Second World War.[20]
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