Hesket Hall
HESKET NEWMARKET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1144444
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Hesket Hall
- Statutory Address:
- HESKET NEWMARKET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1144444
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Hesket Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- HESKET NEWMARKET
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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:
- HESKET NEWMARKET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Caldbeck
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 33973 38646
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27/11/2015
NY 33 NW
13/80
CALDBECK,
Hesket Newmarket,
Hesket Hall
(Formerly listed as Hesket Hall Farmhouse)
11.4.67
II*
Manor house, later farmhouse. Mid or late C17 for Sir Wilfrid Lawson. Cement rendered walls with flush stone quoins (each with an individual mason's mark) under parapet with urn finials on each corner. Hipped graduated greenslate roof with large square central rendered chimney stack. Square 2 storeys, 3 bays with lower 2-storey, single-bay gabled extensions to each face; ball finials on gables. Garden facade has 4-panel door in chamfered surround under hoodmould with oval window above in stone surround under hoodmould. Sash windows with glazing bars in stone surrounds. Side and rear walls and extensions have 3-light cross-mullioned windows under hoodmoulds. The site of an earlier house of the Bewley family, sold to William Lawson of Isel Hall in 1630 and rebuilt by his son, "a curious structure with twelve angles, so contrived that the shadows show the hours of the day". See Sir Edmund Thomas Bewley, The Bewleys of Cumberland, 1902, p39. Transactions Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, new series, i, p31, Bishop Nicholson's Diary, "1685, June 6, By Sr Wilfrid Lawson's whim at Heskett".
Listing NGR: NY3397338646
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 72388
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Thomas Bewley, E, The Bewleys of Cumberland, (1902), 39
Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Vol. 1, (), 31
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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