Isel Hall
ISEL HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1137970
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1967
- Statutory Address:
- ISEL HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1137970
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1967
- Statutory Address 1:
- ISEL HALL
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ISEL HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Blindcrake
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- NY1585533683
Details
BLINDCRAKE ISEL
NY 13 SE
6/20 Isel Hall
G.V. I
3-3-67
Tower house and hall wing. Late C14 or early C15 with late C15 hall and C16
extension with C19 alterations. Tower of extremely thick calciferous sandstone
rubble walls with flush quoins, under battlemented parapet; gabled greenslate
roof within parapets. Hall and wing of mixed calciferous and red sandstone
walls, under graduated greenslate roof with C19 yellow brick chimney stacks.
Rectangular tower of vaulted basement and 3 storeys over. Hall adjoins north
angle of tower almost at right-angles: 2 storeys, 5 bays with 3-storey, 6-bay
extension under common roof. Tower has some original loops but mostly irregular
2-light C16 windows under hoodmoulds. Hall and extension have 2- and 3-light
Tudor windows and doorway, the parapet with shaped finials. Rear has irregular
Tudor doorways and windows. The rear wall of the hall has 2 buttresses.
Interior of tower has newel and straight stairs in thickness of walls.
Garderobe chamber. Interior of hall has Tudor panelling with traces of
contemporary painting. See Transactions Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian &
Archaeological Society new series, xi, pp122-8.
Listing NGR: NY1585533683
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 72545
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Vol. 11, (), 122-8
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