Castlesteads
CASTLESTEADS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1311730
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Castlesteads
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLESTEADS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1311730
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Castlesteads
- Statutory Address 1:
- CASTLESTEADS
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:
- CASTLESTEADS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Walton
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 51139 63288
Details
NY 56 SW WALTON
10/179 Castlesteads
II
House. Late C18 for John Johnson with mid C19 alterations. Hammer dressed red sandstone with chamfered ashlar plinth, pilaster strips to angles, string course, moulded and dentilled cornice with parapet; slate roof, ashlar chimney stacks with moulded cornices. 2 storeys, 7 bays with flanking wings of 2 storeys, 3 bays. Top glazed panelled doors have radial fanlight, engaged Doric columns with plain entablature and dentilled triangular pediment. 2-pane sash windows have plain stone surrounds. Wings have round head sashes to ground floor ending in tripartite sashes with glazing bars and decorated round headed frieze. Upper floor windows have pilaster strip surrounds broken by rusticated blocks, moulded triangular pediments and console bracketed sills. Rainwater heads dated 1867. Wings extend in L-shape to side, of 5 bays. Rear has apsidal staircase projections; all rear windows sashes with glazing bars. W. Hutchinson, History of Cumberland, 1794, vol I, p118, refers to the newly constructed mansion, the estate having been purchased by Mr Johnson in 1789. This probably replaced an earlier house of the Dacre family, known to have been on this site and built with stone from the nearby Roman Wall. Called Walton House when built.
Listing NGR: NY5113963288
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 77970
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hutchinson, , History of Cumberland, (1794), 118
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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