PLUMPTON HALL

PLUMPTON HALL, PLUMPTON, LA12 7QN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1158458
Date first listed:: 18-May-1953
List Entry Name:: PLUMPTON HALL
Statutory Address:: PLUMPTON HALL, PLUMPTON, LA12 7QN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1158458
Date first listed:: 18-May-1953
List Entry Name:: PLUMPTON HALL
Statutory Address 1:: PLUMPTON HALL, PLUMPTON, LA12 7QN

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: PLUMPTON HALL, PLUMPTON, LA12 7QN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Egton with Newland
National Grid Reference:: SD 31287 78718

Details

SD 37 NW, 17/88

EGTON WITH NEWLAND, Plumpton Hall

18.05.53

II*

House. Mid to late C16; date stone reading: "W A/1706" and early C18 extension; later alterations. Roughcast stone rubble, part now exposed, slate roofs. L-plan, two storeys. North range is C18, the south elevation of seven bays, central entrance plan. Windows are sashed with single glazing bars and horns, no window to 7th bay of 1st floor; blocked entrance to 1st bay and central entrance with moulded jambs, embattled lintel, label mould, segmental-headed panel and three ball finials; C20 door. Large gable-end stack projects at junction with older part. West wing of two bays, paired sashed window and small light to ground floor, sashes above, one with vertical glazing bars; south gable end has later lean-to extension extending to west as gabled projection; gable-end entrance in C20 glazed porch. West elevation has gabled wing to northern end, which has glazed entrance and two sashed windows, that to 1st floor in originally larger opening; three stair lights and lateral stack with set offs and rounded shaft to centre, and single-storey gabled wing. North elevation his irregular fenestration; ground floor has blocked opening under flat arch, blocked square window and sashed window with flat arch; older part has sashed window in originally wider opening and closet light. 1st floor has sashed window, stair window with sash with glazing bars, small square casement and blocked window under flat arch; old part has casement. Eastern end has large projecting lateral stack, probably a later alteration; older part has lateral stack with set offs and rounded shaft, possibly a later alteration. East gable end has signs of removed stack and blocked fireplaces.

INTERIOR: entrance with date stone over now covered by later wing. Older wing has chamfered beams and some C16 moulded beams; part of C17 partition; spiral stair of oak baulks, 2-fielded panel door; 1st floor has chartered door frames one with Tudor head; door with strap hinges; bolection moulded fireplaces; also to later wing, which has bolection moulded panelling and doors; stair, possibly ex-situ, has square newels with pendants turned balusters and ramped handrails; armorial panel to window: John Sawrey.

Listing NGR: SD3128778718

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Legacy System number:: 75861
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.