PARSONAGE FARMHOUSE

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Old Parsonage. Built in the 13th century, possibly as a manor house, and became a vicarage. Converted to a farmhouse in the 19th century.

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"Old Parsonage, north of the church. One gable-end has two buttresses and between them a blocked two-light window with a circle over, ie the window of a later, 13th century upper wall". ("Old Vicarage", NY0865 3094, on OS 6", 1957). (1)

This is one of the oldest buildings in the lake District, and is thought to have been the mediaeval manor house befor it became the vicarage, and later a farm. (2)

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B of E (Cumb & Westm) 1967 79 (Pevsner)

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