Wetheral Abbey Farm
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Description
....Wetheral Priory was founded in 1106 and demolished at the Dissolution in the C16, after which the former priory buildings and surrounding land were let by the Dean and Chapter for agricultural use. From the late C17 the farm was let to the Nicholsons, and by the C19, was tenanted by the Grahams. A farmstead was already present, probably constructed from the ruined priory stonework, when the current farmhouse and farmstead were designed by James Stewart of Carlisle in 1857....The new mid-C19 Wetheral Abbey Farm was a high status model farm, incorporating the C15 priory gatehouse (a scheduled monument and a Grade I listed building) as a grand entrance. Its upper floors are said to have been used as haylofts, and dendrochronology (tree ring dating) of the roof timbers has produced an early C17 date, indicating that the building was re-roofed at this time. A length of medieval priory wall (a scheduled monument and Grade I listed) is also retained on site, its survival probably due to its incorporation into a former farm building.... -
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