Abbot Hall
ABBOT HALL, MITCHELGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1311673
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Abbot Hall
- Statutory Address:
- ABBOT HALL, MITCHELGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1311673
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Abbot Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBOT HALL, MITCHELGATE
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:
- ABBOT HALL, MITCHELGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kirkby Lonsdale
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 60897 78682
Details
MITGHELGATE 1. 5166 (north side) Abbot Hall SD 6078 NE 5/126 21.11.52 II
2. C17 yeoman's house, altered C18 and C19. Two storeys. Pebbledashed. Slate roof. Three chimneys all rebuilt C19. Gabled porch through both storeys at extreme right. Widely spaced stone brackets under guttering. Windows of two and three lights, mullioned, chamfered and rebated. Those to porch and ground floor right have individual hoodmoulds. Those to left on both floors have continuous labels or strings. Doorway in porch has round head and label, C19. Plank door. Doorway to left hand side with plain stone surround. Six panel door. Back plain, C18 or C19, rubble. Interior. On ground floor to right hand side large fireplace with rough segmental head. In same room elaborate court cupboard with panels and hood with pendants, carved with "IKD 1632". In present entrance hall muntin-and-plank partition and corbelled C18 chimneypiece. Staircase at rear, late C17. Stairs of complex form, dogleg with two branches at first landing. Closed string, square newels with turned finials, and turned balusters. C17 panelling to left hand wall of staircase, which forms one wall of first floor parlour. The other walls of parlour have early C18 panelling with cornice and dado. At right hand side rear is stone spiral stair. On first floor at right, front room with some C17 panelling and fitted cupboard similarly panelled. Heavy tie beam roof. The right hand part of this house is thought to be the older part and was formerly thatched. It was until recently a farmhouse. (Annals, RCHM, NLVAS).
Listing NGR: SD6089778682
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 75240
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory Of Westmorland in Inventory Of Westmorland, (1936)
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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