Lawson Masonic Hall
LAWSON MASONIC HALL, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1087641
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lawson Masonic Hall
- Statutory Address:
- LAWSON MASONIC HALL, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1087641
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lawson Masonic Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- LAWSON MASONIC HALL, MARKET PLACE
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:
- LAWSON MASONIC HALL, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brampton
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 53105 61087
Details
NY 5361 BRAMPTON MARKET PLACE (East side,off)
16/51 Lawson Masonic Hall
II
Masonic Hall, formerly The Mansion House. 1819 for Rev Thomas Ramshay, vicar of Brampton, with C20 additions. English garden wall bond brickwork with stone plinth and string course; green slate roof, brick chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 6 bays. Stepped tetrastyle Tuscan portico, with moulded entablature and cornice: glazed and panelled door with radial fanlight and side-lights, in a Venetian style surround. Left bays are as original with sashes and glazing bars having stone lintels and sills. Projecting bays right are in C20 red brick with reused lintels, sills and windows. Interior: principal room right, has carved skirting boards and plain dado rail; carved overdoor cases with decorated and moulded architraves, panelled doors; moulded plaster cornice and frieze with decorated plaster ceiling. Room left has marble fireplace, moulded picture rail and 1982 replacement ceiling, internal shutters to all windows. Cantilever stone staircase has iron balusters and curved mahogany handrail; apsidal end has plaster cornice and decorated frieze. Listing includes 2 storey, 2 bay extension to right in dressed red sandstone, with sash windows and glazing bars, now caretaker's flat and kitchen.
Listing NGR: NY5310561078
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 77848
- 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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