Armathwaite Hall Hotel

ARMATHWAITE HALL HOTEL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1327178
Date first listed:
08-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:
Armathwaite Hall Hotel
Statutory Address:
ARMATHWAITE HALL HOTEL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1327178
Date first listed:
08-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:
Armathwaite Hall Hotel
Statutory Address 1:
ARMATHWAITE HALL HOTEL

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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
ARMATHWAITE HALL HOTEL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Bassenthwaite
National Park:
Lake District
National Grid Reference:
NY 20637 32464

Details

NY 23 SW BASSENTHWAITE

4/12 Armathwaite Hall Hotel

II

House now hotel. Mid C19 with late C19 extension (on the site of an earlier house) for the Fletcher-Vane family. Dressed red sandstone, with calciferous sandstone ashlar dressings, flush quoins, string courses and battlemented parapet, on plinth of similar material. Graduated greenslate roofs with tall ashlar chimney stacks. 2 storeys of numerous bays with flanking 3-storey towers and right-angled 2½-storey, 5-bay wing, forming overall L-shape. Tudor style. Garden facade has central recessed bays with square tower to right and rectangular tower to left, all with cross-mullioned windows of numerous cusped-headed lights. Right tower has battlemented angle turret. Rear facade has projecting entrance bay, with panelled door in Tudor archway and flanking cusped-headed side lights, all under large cross-mullioned staircase window. Gabled pediment above with Fletcher-Vane coat-of-arms. Large ground-floor windows similar to garden facade and smaller 2 & 3-light stone-mullioned windows. Wing of similar design has 2- and 3-light stone-mullioned windows and segmental-arched dormer windows. Interior has mid C19 rooms with Tudor-style fireplaces and moulded plaster ceilings. Late C19 rooms have wood panelled walls and ceilings. Bar has large German wood fireplace with carved figures and animals.

Listing NGR: NY2063732464

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
72096
Legacy System:
LBS

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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