Kirkoswald is a
civil parish
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in the
Eden District
Eden is a local government district in Cumbria, England, based at Penrith Town Hall in Penrith. It is named after the River Eden, which flows north through the district toward Carlisle. Its population of 49,777 at the 2001 census, increased ...
,
Cumbria
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, England. It contains 57
listed buildings
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that are recorded in the
National Heritage List for England
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. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, seven are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the village of Kirkoswald, the smaller village of
Renwick, and the surrounding countryside. The listed buildings include a castle, now in ruins, two
tower house
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s, one that developed into a
country house, and the other into a farmhouse, and buildings formerly associated with a
collegiate church In Christianity, a collegiate church is a church where the daily office of worship is maintained by a college of canons: a non-monastic or "secular" community of clergy, organised as a self-governing corporate body, which may be presided over by ...
. Most of the other listed buildings consist of houses and associated structures, farmhouses and farm buildings. Included in the other listed buildings are churches, a separate bell tower, hotels and public houses, shops, village
stocks, a bridge, a former water mill, a bank, a manorial boundary stone, a war memorial, and a telephone kiosk.
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Lists of listed buildings in Cumbria
Listed buildings
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