button to main menu  Old Cumbria Gazetteer
Guides Farm, Kents Bank
Guides Farm
Guide's Farm
Street:-   Cart Lane
locality:-   Kents Bank
civil parish:-   Grange-over-Sands (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD40077646
1Km square:-   SD4076
10Km square:-   SD47


photograph
BYS30.jpg (taken 5.7.2013)  

evidence:-   old map:- West 1784 map
placename:-  Carter House
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, about 1784.
image
Ws02SD37.jpg
item:-  Armitt Library : A1221.1
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Laurie and Whittle 1806
placename:-  Carter House
placename:-  Guides House
source data:-   Road map, Completion of the Roads to the Lakes, scale about 10 miles to 1 inch, by Nathaniel Coltman? 1806, published by Robert H Laurie, 53 Fleet Street, London, 1834.
image  click to enlarge
Lw18.jpg
"Carter or Guides H[ou] 252"
house; distance from London 
item:-  private collection : 18.18
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Guide's House
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.
image
FD02SD47.jpg
"Guide's House"
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Guides Farm
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"GUIDES FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FARM BUILDINGS / / CART LANE / GRANGE OVER SANDS / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 460506 / SD4007876467"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"House and attached farm buildings. Mid or late C17 with C18 and C19 additions and alterations. House of painted roughcast, barn of exposed limestone rubble, and single-storey range of painted rubble and brick. Slate roofs. Comprises a house to the north, a taller bank barn to the south with its main upper doorway on the west side, and a single-storey range projecting towards the east from the junction between house and barn. The house is of 3-cell plan and of 2 storeys plus attic. The windows have plain reveals and projecting sills and are mostly sashed. On the ground floor there are 3 windows (the middle one with paired sashes) and on the 1st floor there are 5. The attic has one casement window set between 2 blind recesses. To the right of the 1st window is a door with plain reveals. To the left of the right-hand window is a 2nd door with plain reveals which has a flat stone hood on brackets. Chimneys on right-hand gable and to left of 2nd doorway. The north wall of the single-storey range contains 2 doorways and has a chimney on the ridge. The barn has openings with plain reveals and rough stone arches. At the lower level there are 2 shippon doorways, a central cart store doorway, and a small window at the left. At the upper level there is a central threshing door."
"INTERIOR: the central room on the ground floor has 2 main ceiling beams with sunken quadrant mouldings, the right-hand one originally serving as a firehood bressumer. The room is divided from the southern room by a stone partition wall. The rear staircase is said to be of stone, now covered with timber. The house is the residence of the official guide for the oversands route."

button to lakes menu  Lakes Guides menu.