Whitehall

WHITEHALL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1327216
Date first listed:
25-Apr-1951
List Entry Name:
Whitehall
Statutory Address:
WHITEHALL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1327216
Date first listed:
25-Apr-1951
List Entry Name:
Whitehall
Statutory Address 1:
WHITEHALL

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WHITEHALL

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

District:
Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Allhallows
National Grid Reference:
NY2017041598

Details

NY 24 SW ALLHALLOWS Mealsgate

6/4 Whitehall

25.4.51

I

Tower house now private house. Partly C14 and C15 with alterations dated and
inscribed on stone under coat-of-arms LANCELOTUS SALKELD FILIUS THOMAE SALKELD
HOC FIERI FECIT 1589; further alterations by Anthony Salvin dated and inscribed
on rainwater heads GM 1861 (George Moore). Extremely thick walls of mixed red
and calciferous sandstone rubble, partly squared and coursed, under battlemented
parapet and angle turret with flush quoins. Tower has graduated greenslate roof
between parapets; hall range under graduated greenslate roof with coped gable
and ball finials; stone chimney stacks. 3-storey, 2-bay tower with 2-storey,
3-bay hall range to right, which by the coursing of the stone appears
contemporary with the tower. C19 plank door under C19 Tudor arch inscribed (by
George Moore) LET IT PLEASE THEE TO BLESS THE HOUSE OF THY SERVANT, with
original C16 hoodmould inscribed TS on label stops. 2-light Tudor style windows
are partly C16, but some are completely C19. Small carved stone coat-of-arms
built into wall at first floor level. Projection to left linked with 1861-1907
extension, (demolished 1962 leaving only foundation courses). Window to left is
in C19 blocked first-floor doorway to extension. Hall has C19 ground floor
windows. Central blocked C16 doorway above, has hoodmould with coat-of-arms
label stops. Original 3-light Tudor window to left under hoodmould with T.S.
label stops. End wall right has small C16 carved-stone coat-of-arms. Rear wall
of Tower has blocked ground-floor Tudor window. Small chamfered-surround window
to left and blocked openings above originally lit newel staircase. All other
windows are C19 Tudor style. C19 uninscribed panel at first floor level. Rear
wall of hall has C15 chamfered-surround ground floor window with 3-light Tudor
window above under hoodmould. Interior of tower has extensive C19 alterations.
Newel staircase from second floor to parapet, was originally from ground floor
and continued up into turret. Ground floor of hall has fireplace dated and
inscribed W. & L. P.M. (Parkin-Moore) 1900. Upper floor room has Tudor-style
stone fireplace and panelled plaster ceiling inscribed on central cartouche G. &
A.M. Was in Salkeld hands until 1746 when it fell into ruins. Restored by
George Moore after purchase in 1858. Sold to County Council after World War II,
who passed it to the Civil Defence Corps for demolition training in l960's.
Sold by Council and now owned by the original owners Parkin-Moore. See J.F.
Curwen, Castles & Towns of Cumberland & Westmorland, 1913, pp405-6; Whitehall in
Cumberland, 1865 pp l-28.


Listing NGR: NY2017041598

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
72309
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Whitehall in Cumberland, (1865), 28
Curwen, J F, Castles and Fortified Towers of Cumberland and Westmorland, (1913), 405-406

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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