CRACKENTHORPE HALL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1225826
Date first listed:: 06-Feb-1968
List Entry Name:: CRACKENTHORPE HALL
Statutory Address:: CRACKENTHORPE HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1225826
Date first listed:: 06-Feb-1968
List Entry Name:: CRACKENTHORPE HALL
Statutory Address 1:: CRACKENTHORPE HALL

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:: CRACKENTHORPE HALL

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

District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Crackenthorpe
National Grid Reference:: NY6621521803

Details

NY 62 SE CRACKENTHORPE

6/59 Crackenthorpe Hall 6.2.68 G.V. II*

Large house now (1983) subdivided into 3. Rebuilt early C17, refronted c1685 by Hugh & Thomas Machell; south-west wing added in late C19. Rubble with rusticated quoins, pebble-dashed; C17 block has clear margins around openings. Graduated slate roofs of various heights with stone copings and kneelers; corniced stone end chimneys. C17 symmetrical 5-bay front of 2 storeys with attics; centre 3 bays project under pediment with dentil ornament. Original 'T'-shaped cast-iron knocker to studded door in architrave with rusticated frieze and pediment above. String-course runs below attic. Main 2-light windows are mullioned and transomed, with leaded panes, in architraves; attic windows are smaller and lack transoms. End wall has 2 windows to each floor; a C19 panel bearing the Machell arms is set between 2 Roman altars at 1st floor level. Rear elevation has sashes with glazing bars; stair wing projects on left. Internally, the C17 closed-string, dog-leg staircase survives; the balusters have a corkscrew twist, tapering towards the top. Ball finials and pendants to the square newels; deeply-moulded handrail. In the south-west corner of the main ground floor room is a reset fireplace recess constructed of C17/C18 panels with human, animal, and geometric carving. The (C19?) east fireplace in the same room bears a Latin inscription: LIGNA SUPER FOCO LARGE REPONENS DISSOLVE FRIGUS. At first floor level, the end room (formerly a dining room) is fully panelled, with a late C17 corniced fireplace; in the central room is an early C18 wooden fire-surround with fluted pilasters and egg and dart moulding. Some original panelled doors also survive. A pedimented datestone, L.M. 1663, has been reset in the east wall at the rear of the late C19 wing whose appearance is modelled on that of the C17 block. Internally, the detailing of the stairs and landing copies that of the C17 and is a good example of the high standard of workmanship applied throughout.

Listing NGR: NY6621521803

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 422776
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.