Helsington is a civil parish in the South Lakeland District of Cumbria, England. It contains 21 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, one is at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish includes the village of Brigsteer, and is otherwise rural. The major listed buildings in the parish are Sizergh Castle and associated structures. The other listed buildings include farmhouses, farm buildings, houses, bridges (two of them over dry parts of the Lancaster Canal), a church, a snuff mill, and buildings associated with a former gunpowder works.
A country house that has been altered through the centuries. It is built in limestone with some rendering, and has slate roofs, an embattledparapet, decorative bargeboards and ball finials. The building has a U-shaped plan, consisting of a main range, a north service wing and a south wing. On the entrance front is a projecting embattled porch with a three-storey three-bay block behind, a tower to the right, and a gabled bay to the left. At the rear south corner is a large tower and a taller stair tower. The window vary and include mullioned and transomed windows and Venetian windows.[2][3]
The farmhouse is roughcast and has a green slate roof with a crowstepped gable on the left. In the front is a two-storey gabled porch, and a doorway with a chamfered oak surround and a fanlight. The windows are fixed with opening lights.[4]
A rendered house with a slate roof. It has two storeys, and an L-shaped plan, with a front of five bays. The porch is gabled with a finial, and the windows are sashes.[5]
The farmhouse is in stone with a green slate roof, two storeys and four bays. In the upper floor is a mullioned window and a cross-window with one opening light, and al the other windows are 20th-century casements. Inside the farmhouse is a large inglenook fireplace.[6]
The front was added to the farmhouse in the 19th century. The house is in limestone with a slate roof, hipped at the front. There are two storeys with attics. The doorway has a chamfered surround ad an arched head, and the windows are sashes. At the rear is a full height staircase projection.[7]
The farmhouse, later divided into two dwellings, is in roughcast stone with a green slate roof, two storeys and attics. It has an L-shaped plan, the older part being the west wing, the east wing dated 1767. The west wing contains a variety of windows including one that is mullioned. In the east wing is a door with a semicircular traceriedfanlight, and sash windows, and at the rear is a round-headed stair window.[8]
The church was restored in 1857, 1898 and in 1910. It is built in renderedlimestone with sandstone dressings and a roof of Westmorlandslate. The church has a rectangular plan, consisting of a nave and chancel in a single cell. On the south side is a porch, on the north side is a vestry and there is a bellcote on the west gable. The windows on the sides have two lights, chamfered surrounds, and chamfered mullions.[9][10]
The bridge carries a road over a gorge containing the River Kent. It is in limestone with a curved plan, and consists of two arches with a narrow carriageway. On the upstream side is a large triangular cutwater.[11]
The garden wall is in limestone on the side of the stable block and in brick on the side of the garden, The summer house and gate piers are in stone, and the piers are surmounted by stone urns.[13]
The stable block and barn are in limestone with green slate roofs. The stable block has two storeys and a symmetrical front. In the centre is a block containing a recessed arch, casement windows and a circular recess in the upper floor, and at the top is a hipped roof surmounted by a wooden bell tower with a lead cupola and a weathervane. This flanked by two-bay wing containing casement windows. The bank barn is at right angles to the right, it has two storeys and ten bays, and contains two cart entrances on each side.[14][15]
A snuff mill in limestone with quoins, through-stones, and a green slate roof with a stone ridge. There are two storeys, and in the ground floor is a doorway and a casement window. External steps lead to a doorway and there are also three windows in the upper floor.[19]
The barn is in limestone with through-stones and a slate roof, and contains stables, a cow house, and a hay loft above. There are four openings with voussoirs and one with a massive stone lintel.[20]
The building is in limestone, partly rendered, with quoins and a Westmorlandslate roof. There are two storeys, an east front of three bays, and two wings at the rear. At the south end the roof is hipped above an open porch, and the windows are sashes.[22][23]
The building is in limestone with a single-hipped roof in Westmorlandslate. The doorway is on the west side, there are small openings in the south wall, all of which are blocked, and the north and east walls are blind.[24]
The buildings are in limestone with Westmorlandslate roofs. They form a U-shaped complex with a central range containing the turbine house and a workshop, and flanking wings containing workshops.[25]
The walls, end, intermediate and gate piers at the entrance to the grounds are in limestone, and the gates and fencing are in timber. The gate piers have small ball finials.[26]
