Alstonby Hall

ALSTONBY HALL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1335568
Date first listed:
16-Jan-1984
List Entry Name:
Alstonby Hall
Statutory Address:
ALSTONBY HALL
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Date:
2007-08-16
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1335568
Date first listed:
16-Jan-1984
List Entry Name:
Alstonby Hall
Statutory Address 1:
ALSTONBY HALL

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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:
ALSTONBY HALL

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

District:
Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Kirklinton Middle
National Grid Reference:
NY 40974 65257

Details

NY 46 NW KIRKLINTON

3/132 Alstonby Hall

II

House, formerly shooting lodge. Early C19 with mid-Cl9 extension, probably by William Burn for the Grahams of Netherby. Original lodge: single storey, 4 bays, of calciferous sandstone ashlar, with chamfered plinth; graduated slate roof with lead hips and projecting eaves; clusters of octagonal stone chimney stacks. 2-storey, 2 bay extension of red sandstone ashlar, with string course and moulded cornice, has slate roof with C20 tile repairs, octagonal stone chimney stacks. Lodge has recessed and stepped Ionic tetrastyle loggia: central pointed entrance arch with hood mould, oak plank door and fanlight with intersecting glazing bars, with flanking pointed casements with glazing bars. Flanking projecting bays have hipped roofs, 3-light round headed mullions with glazing bars and square hood moulds. Extension is double span, with projecting and recessed gables. Projecting porch of red sandstone has pointed head and hood mould. Windows of similar details to lodge but without glazing bars. Projecting polygonal bay window to east front, has angle buttrresses carried up as finials. Interior of extension has oak panelled doors; ceilings with moulded and decorated cornices; oak shutters. Principal room has rib vaulted plaster ceiling, cast iron fireplace having radial heating bars and moulded black marble mantelpiece.

Listing NGR: NY4097465257

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
77932
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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