Kirkandrews-on-Esk is a civil parish in the Carlisle district of Cumbria, England. It contains 13 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, three are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish is almost completely rural. The listed buildings consist of two farmhouses, a former tower house with associated structures, a former toll house, a church, a railway viaduct, and six milestones.
Originally a tower house, it is a peel tower built in the sixteenth century[2] and was altered in the 18th and 20th centuries. The house is built with thick sandstone walls on a chamferedplinth, and has quoins, a corbelledparapet-walk, and a steeply pitched gabledslate roof. There are three storeys and two bays. The main entrance is on the first floor, it has a roll mouldedarchitrave, and is approached by external stone steps. The ground floor formed a vaultedundercroft, and has a doorway with a similar surround. Some window openings are blocked, others contain casements. It is on the west bank of the River Esk.[3][4]
The interior of the church was restored in 1892–93 by Temple Moore. The church is built in sandstone on a plinth, and has string courses, dentilled triangular gablepediments, and a slate roof with coped gables. It consists of a nave and a chancel, and has a bell-tower rising from the west end. The tower is square, with a sundial, and is surmounted by an open rotunda of columns on which is a dome and a weathervane. The entrance is flanked by engaged Tuscan columns, and above it is a triangular moulded pediment. At its sides are round-headed windows, with square windows above, and there are round-headed windows along the sides of the church. Inside the church is a rood screen with flutedCorinthian columns.[5][6]
A sandstone farmhouse with quoins and a hipped green slate roof. There are two storeys and three bays, an H-shaped plan, and a single-storey extension to the right. The central bay is recessed with Tuscan columns. The outer bays contain entrances, the left is blocked, the right has a doorway with flanking blocked side lights, all with mouldedcornices. The windows are sashes with plain surrounds.[7]
The milestone was provided for the Longtown to Gretna road. It is in sandstone, and consists of a square stone with a round top carrying a circular cast iron plate indicating the distance in miles to Carlisle. On the top is a bench mark.[8]
The milestone was provided for the Longtown to Gretna road. It is in sandstone, and consists of a square stone with a round top carrying a circular cast iron plate indicating the distance in miles to Carlisle.[9]
The milestone was provided for the Carlisle to Glasgow Turnpike. It is in sandstone, and consists of a stone with curved face and a round top carrying a cast iron plate indicating the distance in miles to Carlisle and to Glasgow. On the top is a bench mark.[10]
The milestone was provided for the Longtown to Penton road. It is in sandstone, and consists of a square stone with a round top carrying a circular cast iron plate indicating the distance in miles to Carlisle.[13]
The walls project from the west and north walls of the tower, and are partly in brick and partly in sandstone. They are 3 metres (9.8 ft) high and have higher entrances. The walls contains archways and mullioned windows, some of which are blocked, and have battlementedparapets.[3][15]
The farmhouse and barn are in sandstone and river cobbles, and have green slate roofs. The house has two storeys and four bays, and the barn at right angles has two bays, forming an L-shaped plan. There are two doorways with fanlights, and the doorways and sash windows have plain surrounds. In the barn are plank doors and a casement window.[16]
