Yewbarrow Hall / Ubarrow Hall

Date:
29 May 2007
Location:
Yewbarrow Hall, Longsleddale, South Lakeland, Cumbria, LA8 9BB
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Ubarrow Hall, Longsleddale, South Lakeland, Cumbria, LA8 9BB
Reference:
IOE01/15644/21
Type:
Photograph (Digital)
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Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

NY 50 SW LONG SLEDDALE

3/26 Yewbarrow Hall 21.11.52 II

Also known as Ubarrow Hall. Tower House, probably medieval, and attached C17 Farmhouse with later alterations. Tower: rubble walls formed of boulders, crowstepped gable and stone lintels and cills. 2 storeys, previously higher.

Entrance at first floor from external stone stair, 2 small windows on ground floor. Interior has vaulted undercroft with stone fireplace and wide chimney; kingpost roof, probably C16; remains of circular stair in East corner. House: roughcast render with slate drip; graduated slate roof, 2 end chimney stacks. 2 storeys. Central stone porch with slate roof and side benches, C19 board door.

C20 casements to either side. 2 C19 sashes with single vertical glazing bar above. Interior has exposed beams; beef loft over fireplace; C19 board partitions; old plank doors, court cupboard with enriched panels in kitchen.

See RCHM p.158.

Listing NGR: NY5040302597

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0021 IOE Records taken by Adrian Allchin; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Adrian Allchin. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project

People & Organisations

Photographer: Allchin, Adrian

Rights Holder: Allchin, Adrian

Keywords

Render, Roughcast, Rubble, Slate, Stone, Timber, Medieval Tower House, Tudor Monument (By Form), Elizabethan Fortified House, House, Domestic, Dwelling, Defence, Farmhouse, Agricultural Dwelling, Agriculture And Subsistence, Farm Building, Agricultural Building, Undercroft, Unassigned, Building Component, Building