Loweswater is a civil parish in the Cumberlandunitary authority area of Cumbria, England. It contains 24 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] Most of the parish is in the Lake District National Park. It contains the villages of Loweswater and Mockerkin, and is otherwise rural. Almost all the listed buildings are, or originated as, farmhouses and farm buildings, the other listed buildings being private houses and associated structures, and a telephone kiosk.
The farmhouse was extended in 1773, and is roughcast with a green slate roof. The original part has two storeys and two bays, the higher extension at right-angles has two storeys and three bays, and there is a rear outshut. The original part has projecting plinth stones, and the windows are mullioned. The extension contains quoins, an eavescornice, a doorway with pilasters and an open segmental pediment, and sash windows with architraves. At the rear of the extension is a round-headed stair window.[2]
The former farmhouse and stables are in renderedslate, with a roof partly of green slate and partly of Welsh slate. It has two storeys and is in two parts; the earlier part has two bays and the later part, dating from the late 17th century, has two bays and a stable at the left. At the rear of the earlier part is a semicircular staircase projection. The older part has a 17th-century stone porch with an internal stone seat. Most of the windows are casements, although some windows have retained their mullions. Inside the older part is an inglenook and an arched bressumer.[3][4]
The former farmhouse and barn have been converted into a private house and garage, and an extension was added to the rear in the 20th century. The building is in renderedslaterubble with a green slate roof. The house has two storeys and three bays, with the former barn to the right. There are two doorways on the front, one with a porch and a chamfered surround, and one at the back with an inscribed lintel The windows are mullioned, and some are blocked. In the barn is a garage door and a ventilation slit.[5]
The barn has walls of slate and a roof of green slate. There are two storeys and three bays. It contains two doorways and a loft door with chamfered surrounds. To the left is a single-storey extension with a corrugated roof.[6]
The farmhouse was extended and altered in 1864 and in the 20th century. It is roughcast with two storeys, and has a main part of four bays with a rear extension at right-angles with two bays. Some of the windows are mullioned with hood moulds, and others date from the 19th and 20th centuries.[7]
The house was extended in 1812, and has since been divided into two dwellings. The whole building has a green slate roof and is in two storeys. The original part is roughcast, and has three bays with a former stable to the left incorporated into the house. It contains mullioned windows and one casement window. The extension is rendered with a modillionedcornice, angle pilasters, and copedgables. The windows are sashes, and the doorway has a dated lintel.[8]
The farmhouse, later a private house, is roughcast with a green slate roof. It is in two storeys and three bays, with outshuts at the rear. On the front is a porch and a doorway with an inscribed and dated lintel. The windows on the front are sashes, and at the rear they are mullioned. The lower barn to the right is rendered and has a corrugated iron roof. There is an outshut at the rear, and the barn contains casement windows, ventilation slits, and an upper floor doorway. Inside the house is an inglenook.[9]
A roughcast farmhouse with a green slate roof, in two storeys and three bays, and with a rear outshut. There is a 20th-century porch, and the windows are of varying types, including casements and horizontally sliding sashes in chamfered surrounds. In the outshut is a mullioned window, and there is evidence of removed mullions in the main part of the house.[10]
The farmhouse and barn have a green slate roof. The house is roughcast, and has two storeys and two bays. The doorway has a gabled stone porch with internal side seats, and the windows are mullioned. The higher barn to the right is in slate rubble, and there are external slate steps leading to a loft door.[11]
The house was extended in 1790. It is roughcast with a green slate roof, and is in two storeys. The original part has four bays, a door with a dated and inscribed lintel, another doorway with a slate hood, and mullioned windows. The extension is at right-angles, with three bays, and has quoins, an eavescornice and copedgables. Above the door is a fanlight and the windows are sashes. In the right return is a large round-headed stair window.[12]
The farmhouse and barns are in slaterubble with green slate roofs. The house has quoins, and is in two storeys and three bays with a rear extension. The doorway has an alternate-block surround, and the windows are mullioned. The barns flank the house at right angles, they have doorways, and the left barn has external slate steps leading to a loft door.[13]
The barn has roughcastslaterubble walls and a corrugated asbestos roof. It has a central single-storey part with an extension on each side. The barn contains various openings, including a large projecting cart entrance, doorways, loft doors, and pigeon holes with projecting slate shelves.[14]
The house was altered in 1741. It is roughcast with projecting plinth stones, and has a green slate roof. There are two storeys and three bays. Above the doorway is a dated lintel, the windows on the front are sashes, and at the rear is a mullioned window. Inside the house are an inglenook and a bressumer.[15]
The house and barn are roughcast with a green slate roof. The house, on a chamferedplinth, has quoins and an eavescornice. It is in two storeys and three bays, with a single-bay extension to the left. The doorway has an architrave, a shell hood, and a shaped cornice. Most of the windows are sashes, with one casement window and a round-headed stair window at the rear. The barn has outshuts, plank doors, and projecting hoods.[17]
The barn is in slaterubble with a green slate roof. It has a single storey, four bays, and an extension to the left with a front outshut. The barn contains a projecting cart entrance, three doorways, and a loft door.[18]
The house is stuccoed with quoins, and it has a green slate roof with copedstables and ball finials. There are two storeys and five bays, with a further gabled wing at the right, and a recessed single-storey wing to the left. On the front is a porch with pilasters, and to the left is a bay window. Most of the other windows are sashes. At the rear are L-shaped stables that have a segmental-arched doorway with a dated keystone.[a][19]
A rendered house that has a Lakelandslate roof with copedgables. It has two storeys and three bays, one narrow, and two wider. On the front is an iron round-headed trellised porch, and the windows have been replaced. At the rear is a round-headed staircase window, small fire windows, and sash windows.[21]
In front of the hall is a low ashlar wall carrying patterned cast iron railings. The gate piers have a hexagonal plan, and between them is a patterned gate.[24]
The wall surrounds the garden in front of the house, it is rendered, and has sandstone saddleback coping. On the wall are spearhead cast iron railings, and the square gate piers have shaped panels.[25]
A K6 type telephone kiosk, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott. Constructed in cast iron with a square plan and a dome, it has three unperforated crowns in the top panels.[26]
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