Tytup Hall
TYTUP HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1208891
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Tytup Hall
- Statutory Address:
- TYTUP HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1208891
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Tytup Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- TYTUP 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:
- TYTUP HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dalton Town with Newton
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 23576 75980
Details
BARROW IN FURNESS
SD27NW TYTUP 708-1/1/250 Tytup Hall 25/02/50 (Formerly Listed as: DALTON ROAD, Ireleth Tytup Hall)
GV II*
Small country house. c1710 with early C19 side-wing. For William Matson. Roughcast over stone, graduated slate roof. 2 storeys with cellar and attic, 5 bays; 2-storey, 3-bay side wing set back on left. Chamfered quoins. Central doorway has nosed steps and iron railings with curved handrails; 6-panel door with integral, 6-pane overlight in eared architrave with rosette and segmental pediment. 18-pane sashes in raised ashlar surrounds moulded on their inner edges: 1st-floor sashes of older appearance with thick glazing bars. Shaped kneelers with ball finials; ashlar gable copings; truncated end stacks. Wing on left: sashes with glazing bars to each floor; small end stack on left and tall stack adjoining the main house. Rear: nine 18-pane sashes, 2 of which form stair windows and interrupt a 1st-floor band. INTERIOR: entrance hall has fluted Corinthian pilasters and modillioned cornice. Archivolt through to stair hall: 8-panel doors; staircase with oak treads, panelled dado, wreathed and ramped handrail. Front-right room: modillioned cornice to 2-panel ceiling; niches flank C20 arch through to rear room. Front-left has fielded-panel shutters on H/L hinges. Closet near stairs has fitted cupboard with round-arched doors, fluted pilasters and dentilled cornice. 1st floor: front-right room panelled and with Corinthian pilasters and enriched cornice. Front-left room has false doorway, fireplace flanked by Ionic pilasters, dentilled cornice. Rear-right room: original painted overmantel depicting rural scene with man on horseback and 2 attenders on the approach to a bridge. Back stairs: square and rectangular newels, turned balusters. Described as a new house in an agreement of 1713 (Melville). Later the home of Father Thomas West, a Jesuit and author of 'The Antiquities of Furness' 1774 and 'A Guide to the Lakes' 1778, the former written at Tytup (Holt). (Trans Cumberland & Westmoreland Antiquarian & Archaeological Soc: Melville J: The Chronological Record of Tytup Hall: A re-appraisal: Kendal: 1975-: 258-261).
Listing NGR: SD2357675980
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388364
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, (1975), 258-261
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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