Bigland Hall
BIGLAND HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225412
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Bigland Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BIGLAND HALL
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- Date:
- 2000-10-26
- Reference:
- IOE01/02684/12
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225412
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Bigland Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BIGLAND 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:
- BIGLAND HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Haverthwaite
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 35466 83146
Details
HAVERTHWAITE
1268/10/75 BIGLAND HALL 25-MAR-70
II House. Late C16 and C17, remodelled and extended in 1809. Roughcast stone with slate roofs. EXTERIOR: South-east facade of 2 storeys and 5 bays; the central bay breaks forward. 1st floor sill band and top cornice and coped parapet; hipped roof; quoins. Windows are sashed with glazing bars, that to central bay of 1st floor has architrave, consoled frieze and cornice, the frieze with relief lion passant reguardant holding wheatear, blocks to ends with pairs of wheatears (Bigland). Entrance has Doric porch with paired columns; vaulting boarded over (1986); outer door and paired half-glazed inner doors and overlight with glazing bars. 2 cross-axial stacks, and 2 stacks to rear slope. Left return has conservatory and projecting flat-roofed block; round-headed stair window with glazing bars. Rear wing has double-pitch roof; sashed windows, most with glazing bars, left return has conservatory and large garage door; right return has projecting gabled wing with smaller parallel wing to rear, which has paired gable-end stacks with bell between. Rear has round headed stair window with glazing bars. INTERIOR: Extensive and complex multi-phase plan form with many surviving examples of panelled doors, moulded architraves, panelled window reveals, plaster cornices and a good range of hearths. Entrance hall has 2 busts in niches. Room in rear wing has fireplace bressummer, probably C16 or early C17, with initials: 'BMB NG' (The 'N' reversed). 'NG' originally thought to be date: 1161. Three of the reception rooms are thought to be attributable to John Hird, and some interior decoration possibly by Webster of Kendal. SD3546683146
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 421784
- 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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