Gatehouse and Curtain Wall of Scales Hall
GATEHOUSE AND CURTAIN WALL OF SCALES HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1210936
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse and Curtain Wall of Scales Hall
- Statutory Address:
- GATEHOUSE AND CURTAIN WALL OF SCALES HALL
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- Date:
- 2002-09-01
- Reference:
- IOE01/08782/19
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1210936
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse and Curtain Wall of Scales Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEHOUSE AND CURTAIN WALL OF SCALES 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:
- GATEHOUSE AND CURTAIN WALL OF SCALES HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Skelton
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 42621 40015
Details
NY 44 SW SKELTON SCALES
5/249 Gatehouse and curtain wall of Scales Hall
I
Gatehouse and short stretch of curtain wall. Late C16. Gatehouse has pink sandstone rubble walls, under graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and shaped finials. Wall of similar rubble with battlemented parapet. 2-storey gatehouse with left wall. Gateway has through segmental archway with roll moulding, under 3-light stone-mullioned window with hoodmould. An inscription over this window is too weathered to read. Arch jambs have slots for bars, but gates now removed. High wall now slopes down to C20 gateway and has survived because steps giving access to the parapet walk behind also give access to studded plank door in a chamfered surround which is in the left return wall of the gatehouse. Rear of gatehouse has been rebuilt in brick over a wooden lintel. Part of the fortified additions to Scales Hall, probably of 1591 for the Southaik family and can be compared with similar C16 curtain walls and gateways at Croglin Low Hall and Askerton Castle; a common feature in Westmorland, these are rare in Cumberland.
Listing NGR: NY4262140015
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 73986
- 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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