Workington Hall
WORKINGTON HALL, HALL BROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1144479
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Workington Hall
- Statutory Address:
- WORKINGTON HALL, HALL BROW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1144479
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Workington Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WORKINGTON HALL, HALL BROW
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:
- WORKINGTON HALL, HALL BROW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Workington
- National Grid Reference:
- NY0075628793
Details
NY 0028 WORKINGTON HALL BROW (East side)
Workington
10/46 Workington Hall
6.6.51
G.V. I
Fortified tower house with various additions, now in ruins. Mid C14 with C15
and C16 alterations and additions; late 1783-1789 additions by John Carr for the
Curwen family. Mixed large blocks of red and calciferous sandstone with
additions of similar rubble stone, all without roofs; oldest parts on chamfered
plinth. Rectangular 3-storey tower with adjoining L-shaped medieval wing
reduced to single-storey and rebuilt as 3 storeys by Carr; also adjoined by C15
hall range of 2 storeys, 5 bays, all enclosing courtyard on 2 sides, the
quadrangle completed by a medieval gatehouse tower and wing by Carr. Tower was
extensively renovated by Carr but retains some original loops, internal spiral
staircase and mural chambers. Late C18 round and flat-headed windows, all
unglazed. Wing has projecting 3-storey garderobe turret and ground-floor loops;
large first-floor late C18 round-headed window openings, those above in ruins.
Late C18 canted bay window to left. Further right-angled kitchen range of
similar details, with angle turret. Hall range has blocked windows and doorways
of various dates; 2 ground-floor early C16 2-light windows and upper-floor C15
window. Inner wall has C15 doorways and blocked early C16 multi-light windows.
3-storey gatehouse has flanking guardrooms with angle turret to right, showing a
number of small original chamfered-surround windows; the round-headed through
archway and windows are late C18 alterations. Adjoining late C18 wing has
similar flat-headed window openings. Ancestral home of the Curwen family who
obtained a licence to crenellate in 1380 (the foundation stone for the tower is
said to have been laid 8 May 1362) and owned by them until sold to the local
council mid C20. After vandalisation the council reduced the building to a
controlled ruin. See Tom Clare, Report on the Fortified Buildings of Cumbria,
Cumbria County Council, 1983 (unpublished), appendix 3; Transactions Cumberland
Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, old series, xvi, 1-15; J.F.
Curwen, Castles & Towers, 1913, 244-7.
Listing NGR: NY0075628793
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 72269
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Curwen, J F, Castles and Fortified Towers of Cumberland and Westmorland, (1913), 244-7
Clare, T, Report on the Fortified Buildings of Cumbria, ()
Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Vol. 16, (), 1-15
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 9 Cumbria,
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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