Torpenhow Hall
TORPENHOW HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1144460
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Torpenhow Hall
- Statutory Address:
- TORPENHOW HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1144460
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Torpenhow Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- TORPENHOW 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:
- TORPENHOW HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Blennerhasset and Torpenhow
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 20632 39763
Details
NY 23 NW BLENNERHASSET & TORPENHOW Torpenhow
11/14 Torpenhow Hall
II
Manor house now farmhouse. Mid C16 with C19 and C20 alterations. Extremely thick cement rendered walls under graduated greenslate roof with brick chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 3 bays, with slightly lower 2-bay extension to right. C20 door in chamfered surround under Tudor arch with inscribed initial A. Further C20 entrance to left within C20 porch. Original window between entrances has mullions removed and chamfered surround under hoodmould with label stops inscribed J.A. (John Appleby). Irregularly-spaced sash windows in C19 surrounds. Extension has 2 plank doors and sash windows in stone surrounds. Rear upper floor 3-light stone-mullioned window has one mullion removed, the remaining light with round head, under hoodmould with inscribed label stops as front window. Sash windows in C19 painted stone surrounds. Rear 2-storey, single-bay extension has C19 sash windows. Interior has inglenook with stone heck partition and massive firebeam; similar ceiling beam. Original ground floor window is splayed on the inside and stepped to provide a window seat in the thickness of the wall. Low roof trusses projecting down into each bedroom are probably C16. John Appleby acquired the hall in c1567. Sold by the Appleby family to Sir George Fletcher in 1658/9. See Cumbria County Record Office, D/Van deeds. Right-angled barn extension to extreme right is not of interest.
Listing NGR: NY2062639748
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 72323
- 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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