Cardew Hall
CARDEW HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055827
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Cardew Hall
- Statutory Address:
- CARDEW HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055827
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Cardew Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- CARDEW HALL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CARDEW HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dalston
- National Grid Reference:
- NY3496949859
Details
NY 34 NW DALSTON Cardew
9/119
Cardew Hall
G.V. II
Farmhouse. Probably early C16 and C17, with C18 and C19 additions and
alterations. Large coursed red sandstone on squared plinth: thick walls. C20
tiled roof with coped gable and kneeler at right. Large square chimney at right
gable, ashlar stack to left. Two storeys. Original C16 house of 3 bays, C17
extension 2. Two-bay C18 wing at right-angles. Large C19 sandstone porch with
hipped Welsh slate roof and side plank door. Windows varied: 2 original with
chamfered surround (1 blocked), 2 stone-mullioned (also blocked) and C18 and
later sashes and casements. In C17 part a 4-panel door in carved pilastered
surround. Rear elevation shows a left projection to original house with remains
of stair-turret in angle. Central projecting chimney breast with corbelled
recess to allow light to a stone-mullioned window, one of 4, 2 now blocked.
Other windows C18, C19 and C20. Ancestral house of the Denton family and
birthplace of John Denton (c1561-1617), first historian of Cumberland. Sold to
Sir John Lowther in 1686. Birthplace of the poetess Susanna Blamire (1747-94).
Listing NGR: NY3496949859
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 78304
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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