Smardale Hall and Adjoining Buildings
SMARDALE HALL AND ADJOINING BUILDINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1326959
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Smardale Hall and Adjoining Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- SMARDALE HALL AND ADJOINING BUILDINGS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1326959
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Smardale Hall and Adjoining Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- SMARDALE HALL AND ADJOINING BUILDINGS
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:
- SMARDALE HALL AND ADJOINING BUILDINGS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Waitby
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 73920 08096
Details
NY 70 NW WAITBY
5/82 Smardale Hall and 6.2.68 adjoining buildings II*
Buildings date from C15/C16 centuries. Present Hall of coursed rubble has a tower at each corner, banded just below top. Graduated slate roof with stone chimneys; ball finials to conical tower roofs. 2 storeys, 6 bays. The majority of windows to both side elevations have 2, 3, or 4-lights in stucco surrounds; 2-light window in apex of south gable is only surviving example with stone mullion. All doors are C19/C20 insertions. Internally, large segmental arch to kitchen fireplace survives. Attached range of farm buildings once formed south range to Hall's original courtyard plan. Slobbered rubble walls with graduated slate roof. 2 storeys. Blocked doors and windows can be seen on both side elevations. Internally, the hay loft was once the Great Hall and some decorative plasterwork survives on the eastern wall. The relative thicknesses of their walls suggests that the south-east tower pre-dates the other 3 which may have been added for symmetry. A c1670 plan shows a C14 tower-house in the east wing; this was built by the Smerdales (ie pre 1388) and the rest of the house by the Warcops (ie pre 1580). See Carlisle record Office M.S. D/D&C/Machell III p.225. (From the 6 vols of notes towards a history of Cumberland & Westmorland by the Reverend Thomas Machell in the Dean & Chapter Library, Carlisle).
Listing NGR: NY7392008096
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 73043
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Machell, T, A History of Cumberland and Westmorland in A History of Cumberland and Westmorland, Vol. 3, (), 225
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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