Edmond Castle
EDMOND CASTLE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1087551
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Edmond Castle
- Statutory Address:
- EDMOND CASTLE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1087551
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Edmond Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- EDMOND CASTLE
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:
- EDMOND CASTLE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hayton
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 49720 58571
Details
NY 45 NE HAYTON
4/58 Edmond Castle
G.V. II
Community Home formerly house. Late C18 house, altered and extended by Sir Robert Smirke 1824-27, for Thomas Henry Graham, with further extensions 1844-46 by Sydney Smirke for the same owner; C20 alterations and additions by the Home Office and Cumbria County Council. Calciferous sandstone ashlar, green slate roofs, ashlar chimney stacks; extensions of similar stone. Roughly T-shaped. Entrance front has original house right, 2 storeys, 5 bays, with single storey C20 brick wing at right angles (not included in listing). Faced with ashlar 1824-27; sash windows with glazing bars have continuous drip mould and 2 gabled dormers. Rear wall of English garden wall bond brickwork, has late C18 round- headed window with intersecting glazing bars. Central 2 bays left have similar windows with shaped parapet and carved arms of the Grahams. Large 2-storey, 3- bay extension left is of 1824-27. Central recessed bay has prostyle porch of 1846; octagonal angle columns, pointed arches, decorated frieze and battlemented parapet. Large flanking triple sash windows with chamfered mullions and glazing bars; 2-light mullioned sash windows with glazing bars above. Shaped false gable dormers to each face. Garden front and rear have canted bay windows, with decorated friezes and battlemented parapets. Chapel extension of 1844 at right angles to rear, has mullioned windows, with 2-storey canted bay window, all with pointed arches. C20 brick extension to garden front (not included in listing). 3-storey octagonal angle tower of 1846, has lancet windows and large pointed filled bell openings; leaded cupola. Square 3-storey turret of 1845, to rear of house, adjoins chapel; pyramidal leaded roof with lucarnes. Courtyard buildings adjoin single storey outbuilding, extending from end wall of chapel. Interior of house retains many original features; panelled doors, moulded plaster ceilings, stone fireplaces behind later panelling and library bookcases. Approximately 40 drawings by both architects dated between 1824 and 1846, of the house and individual details of the exterior and interior, are in Carlisle Record Office, (DX/983). Graham family left 1937 andhouse became Approved School 1942. Listing does not include C20 brick extensions.
Listing NGR: NY4972058571
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 78049
- 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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