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The
village detective explores Town End.
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View
up the Troutbeck Valley from Town End
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Troutbeck
Valley from Town End:
Troutbeck Village is a linear, straggling group of very fine historic
buildings. The linear arrangement is a result of many factors, including
ancient routes, water supplies, sunny aspect and medieval farming/social
groupings.
A Conservation Area since 1981, this village needs to be explored
on foot, to take time and read the clues and evidence in the buildings
and enjoy the superb landscape views.
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Town
End - National Trust property
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Town
End:
Probably the finest surviving Yeoman farmhouse in the Lake District,
owned by the National Trust and open to the public. The building
dates from the late 16th century and was the home of the Browne
family for many generations.
A Grade I Listed Building, it has superb 'vernacular' features,
such as the huge cylindrical chimney and the rows of oak mullion
windows.
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Town
End Barn
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Town
End Barn:
Opposite Town End house is a very fine example of a 17th century
'bank barn' . Built in 1666 by George and Elinor Browne, this barn
is a perfect example of rugged simplicity to serve its function
of a threshing barn and granary above, with animals below. Notice
the thick roofing slates, the rubble walls with oak used for roof
trusses, beams, doors and supports. A Grade II* listed building,
still in daily agricultural use.
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Village
Institute and Post Office
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Village
Institute and Post Office:
At the heart of this linear village, this Victorian building of
1869 shows good use of quarry waste for walling. Each stone is laid
tilting downwards (known as 'watershot') to help keep out the rain,
i.e. a self draining wall.
Victorian buildings generally left the stonework exposed in this
area, in contrast to the earlier buildings of rubble stone which
needed roughcast, render and limewash to make them weatherproof.
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