Barbon is a civil parish in the South Lakeland District of Cumbria, England. It contains 23 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, two are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the village of Barbon and the surrounding countryside. The listed buildings consist of houses, farmhouses and farm buildings, bridges, a milestone, a boundary stone, and a church.
A house, later divided into two dwellings, in stone with a roof partly of slate and partly of stone-slate. There are two storeys and five bays. Most of the windows are sashes, and there is one casement window. The central doorway has mouldedjambs, an ogeelintel, and an open gabled porch with a segmental arch. At the rear are two gabled bays.[2]
A packhorse bridge crossing Barbon Beck, it is in stone and consists of a single shallow segmental arch. It has a plain copedparapet, and the roadway is about 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) wide.[3]
The bridge carries a road, Beckgate, over Barbon Beck. It is in stone, and consists of a single segmental arch with thin voussoirs, and is higher to the north. It has plain parapets, and the roadway is about 3.5 metres (11 ft) wide.[4]
Two houses and a barn, in stone with slate roofs and two storeys. Beckgate Head has three bays, a gabled porch, and sash windows. The barn to the left has quoins, a segmental-headed entrance and two smaller entrances. Gatesgarth is at right angles and has four irregular bays, a gabled porch with a segmental openings and stone benches, and sash windows.[5]
A pair of houses in roughcast stone with slate roofs, two storeys and six bays, the right two bays being lower. Most of the ground floor windows are casements, and the others are modern replacements. There are two gabled porches containing side benches, and one plain doorway. At the rear is an outshut.[6]
The house and barn are in roughcast stone with a slate roof. The house has two storeys and two bays, and the windows are mullioned. The barn to the left has a segmental-headed entrance and a smaller entrance. At the rear are two gabled wings and an outshut, casement windows, and a plain doorway.[9]
The farmhouse has two storeys and three bays, and a later wing with quoins at the rear. On the front is a gabled porch and an initialled datestone. There is one casement window, and the other windows are sashes. The barn to the south has doorways, ventilation slits and a ball finial. Over the ground floor of the house and barn is a hood mould.[10]
The milestone was provided for the Sedbergh to Greta Bridgeturnpike. It consists of a stone with a circular plan on a square base with broaches, and is inscribed with initials and numbers.[11]
A house in limestone, on a plinth, with sandstone dressings, quoins, a band, a moulded gutter, and a slate roof. There are two storeys and three bays, the central bay projecting forward under a pediment. Above the central doorway is a fanlight and a pediment, and the windows are sashes. At the rear are an outshut range and two gabled ranges. Attached at the left is a rusticated gate pier with a ball finial, and a gate.[14]
A stone barn with quoins and a slate roof. On the west front is a segmental-headed barn entrance, and mullioned windows in chamfered surrounds. In the north gable end is a pitching hole, and on the east side is a continuous outshut.[15]
The outbuilding is in stone and has a roof with copedgables. The north front has two storeys and three bays, and it contains openings with stone surrounds, the central one in the upper floor having a round head. In the east gable end is a pitching hole. At the left end is a wall that has a rusticated gate pier with a ball finial, and a gate.[16]
The outbuilding is in stone with quoins, a slate roof, a single storey, and two bays. There is a central doorway and the windows are casements with two round-headed lights and decorative glazing.[18]
The buildings are in stone with slate roofs, and form a U-shaped plan. The house forms the east range, it has seven bays and copedgables with ball finials. On the front is a timber porch, and the windows are sashes. The north and west ranges contain the stables, and have various openings, some blocked. The wall surrounds the garden to the west, it has a canted southwest angle, and an entrance on the west side with a wrought iron gate.[20]
The bridge carries a roadway over the River Lune. It is in stone, and consists of two equal segmental arches and a smaller segmental arch to the north. The pier between the equal arches has triangular cutwaters that rise to form pedestrian refuges. The parapets are embattled, those on the main arches being corbelled. On the smaller arch are panels with armorial bearings.[24][25]
A estate house in stone with quoins and a mansardslate roof, built on sloping ground. The south front has two storeys, the north front has one storey, and there are six bays. The windows are sashes with mullions in plain surrounds, and there are four hippeddormers. Above the doorways are fanlights.[12][27]
