Shed, Tongues House Farm, Duddon

Record ID:  26278 / MNA118974
Record type:  Building
Protected Status: World Heritage Site
NT Property:  Duddon Valley; North
Civil Parish:  Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite; South Lakeland; Cumbria
Grid Reference:  SD 2363 9748
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Summary

These three small kennels / pig sties are constructed in the same fashion as the walls in the area, but with a slightly higher content of quarried stone. The roof has a single pine purlin with flatways sawn rafters and old thick slates and sandstone ridge, untorched.

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Monument Types

  • SHED (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Description

These three small kennels / pig sties are constructed in the same fashion as the walls in the area, but with a slightly higher content of quarried stone. The roof has a single pine purlin with flatways sawn rafters and old thick slates and sandstone ridge, untorched.

20th century doors are disused now. In the centre of the southern portion is a Walna Scar slate division, boarded above eaves level. Visible floors were of earth.

(NT VBS SURVEYOR; 1986)

References

  • SZI50236 - Vernacular Building Survey: Martin Higgins. 01/08/1986. Vernacular building survey of Tongue House Farm, Duddon.

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Associated Events

  • ENA1460 - Field Survey, Vernacular Building Survey, Tongue House Farm, Duddon Valley, 1986

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