Crakeplace Hall
CRAKEPLACE HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1326884
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Crakeplace Hall
- Statutory Address:
- CRAKEPLACE HALL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1326884
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Crakeplace Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- CRAKEPLACE 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:
- CRAKEPLACE HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dean
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 07004 24032
Details
DEAN ULLOCK NY 02 SE 12/123 Crakeplace Hall (previously 3-3-67 listed with attached farm buildings) II*
Farmhouse. Mid C16 with extension, dated 1612 over doorway, for the Crakeplace family; C19 and C20 alterations. Cement roughcast walls, under graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and kneelers; roughcast rebuilt chimney stacks. 2½ storeys, 3 bays with integral left stable under common roof and right lower right-angled 2-bay extensions, forming overall L-shape. Main part has ground-floor former 4-light stone-mullioned window with central mullion removed, under similar complete 3-light window, both with hoodmoulds, that in ground floor with carved-head label stops. Left enlarged C20 garage doorway in former stable. Extruded lean-to roughcast stone porch with plank door in stone architrave under stone inscribed and dated CHRISTOPHER CRAKEPLACE BUILT THE SAME WHEN HE WAS SERVANT TO BARON ALTHAM. Extension has sash windows with glazing bars in plain reveals, the ground-floor one under hoodmould extruding around side of porch. Rear of main part has various windows on 3 levels: central former 2-light stone-mullioned window under complete 3-light window, both under hoodmoulds, and small square chamfered-surround attic windows; other windows are sashes in C18 and C19 stone surrounds. Former stable has slit vent and attic window. Interior has C16 arched stone kitchen fireplace similar to one at Branthwaite Hall. See M.W. Taylor, Old Manorial Halls of Cumberland & Westmorland, pp326-7; Transactions Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, old series, xiii, pp431-2. All further extensions are not of interest.
Listing NGR: NY0700424032
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 72646
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Taylor, M W, Old Manorial Halls of Cumberland and Westmorland, (1892), 326-7
Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Vol. 13, (), 431-2
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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