Rampside Hall
RAMPSIDE HALL, 101, RAMPSIDE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1197852
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Rampside Hall
- Statutory Address:
- RAMPSIDE HALL, 101, RAMPSIDE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1197852
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Rampside Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAMPSIDE HALL, 101, RAMPSIDE
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:
- RAMPSIDE HALL, 101, RAMPSIDE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 24079 66307
Details
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SD26NW RAMPSIDE 708-1/6/108 (North side) 10/11/49 No.101 Rampside Hall
I
Large house. Late C17 (Pevsner). Roughcast over stone with ashlar dressings, graduated slate roof. 3 storeys and attic, 5 bays, double-depth plan; later wing to rear left. Central doorway has ovolo-moulded quoined surround with vine carving on chamfer stops; lintel decorated with ogee panels and carved vinetrail; hoodmould surmounted by blank panel with round-arched cornice. Dripmould continues from doorhood to cover double-chamfered cross-windows having C20 casements with glazing bars. Upper-floor windows all in same style; bays 1 & 5 on 2nd floor have different, red sandstone, surrounds. Shaped blocks support wooden gutter. Parapet removed but end dies remain and have large ball finials on ornate pedestals; ashlar gable copings. 12 diagonally-set chimneys occupy full length of ridge. Left return: lean-to porch in angle with later wing, encloses cross-boarded oak door with decorative iron hinges in ovolo-moulded surround. Casement and 4-pane sash to ground floor; cross-window and partially-blocked cross-window above. INTERIOR: structurally the house has a massive tranverse wall incorporating the flues; off this the rooms are formed by timber partitions; most rooms have beamed ceilings. Original features include: well in cellar; incomplete fireplace bressumer in kitchen to rear left, beneath it a stone arch. Staircase to rear centre rises through 3 floors and has original oak balustrade of turned balusters and deep-section handrail between square and rectangular newels with sunken panels and moulded caps. Chamfered ashlar fireplace to 1st floor left. Built for the Knype family. A house here is mentioned in 1634 although it is uncertain when and for which member of the family the present structure was built (Chambers & Gaythorpe). Pevsner, as stated, regarding the building as late C17. (Trans. Cumberland & Westmoreland Antiquarian & Archaeol. Society: Chambers C P: Rampside Hall: Kendal: 1910-: 288-297; Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Lancashire: London: 1969-).
Listing NGR: SD2407966307
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388561
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Lancashire, (1969)
Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, (1910), 288-297
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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