Sowerby Hall
SOWERBY HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290783
- Date first listed:
- 27-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Sowerby Hall
- Statutory Address:
- SOWERBY HALL
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- Date:
- 2002-08-16
- Reference:
- IOE01/08486/17
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290783
- Date first listed:
- 27-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Sowerby Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOWERBY 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:
- SOWERBY HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Castle Sowerby
- National Grid Reference:
- NY3810736059
Details
NY 33 NE CASTLE SOWERBY
8/5 Sowerby Hall
27.12.67
G.V. II
Vicarage now farmhouse. Probably early C17 with extensive alterations dated and
inscribed over front entrance J & GS Vicr 1746 (Joseph Sevithwaite and wife).
Painted render over mixed sandstone rubble walls. Graduated greenslate roof
with coped gables and kneelers; banded sandstone gable end chimney stacks.
2 storeys, 5 bays with right single-storey washhouse. Centre C20 door and
fanlight in moulded pilastered surround with imposts and false keystone. Sash
windows in painted stone surrounds, that to left of entrance double. Rear has
C17 3-light chamfered stone-mullioned staircase window. Washhouse has rear
chamfered window with stone mullion removed. Interior of house has beamed
ceilings. Inglenook with heck partition; inserted C20 fireplace and left
cupboard recess. Panelled doors in hall and on landing. A visitation by
Chancellor Waugh c1752 states, "the present vicar has built an neat convenient
house and keeps all things about it in good order..."; see Transactions
Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, new series,
lxxiii, p.181.
Listing NGR: NY3810736059
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 73727
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Vol. 73, (), 181
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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