Stonegarthside Hall
STONEGARTHSIDE HALL
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1335605
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Stonegarthside Hall
- Statutory Address:
- STONEGARTHSIDE HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1335605
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Stonegarthside Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- STONEGARTHSIDE 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:
- STONEGARTHSIDE HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Nicholforest
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 48039 81860
Details
NY 48 SE NICHOLFOREST
3/82 Stonegarthside Hall
G.V. II*
House, formerly tower house. Probably late C13 for Baldwin de Wake, with wings dated 1682 on kneelers to right, for Henry Forster, incorporating earlier features. Large mixed blocks of calciferous and gray sandstone on projecting plinth stones with shaped quoins; reused medieval moulded stonework built into C17 extensions is thought to be from the original entrance to the building; crow stepped gables, ashlar chimney stacks (some of which are false), graduated Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys, of numerous bays in Scottish Baronial style; buildings on 3 sides enclosing a small courtyard, which was formerly part of the house with its roof removed. Unifying courtyard wing of 2 storeys, 3 bays is probably late C17. Former entrance has moulded architrave, pulvinated frieze and moulded cornice; flanking blocked windows. Upper floor windows have moulded architraves, now open and unglazed. Battlemented parapet with quatrefoil openings and ball finials to pilaster strips at each end. Flanking gabled wings of 1682 have sash windows with glazing bars in moulded stone architraves. Similar windows to sides; rear windows have chamfered stone surrounds. Central 3 bays of rear are part of the original 4-storey tower; the only original feature is the heart-shaped opening lighting the basement (a similarly shaped stone is removed to an outhouse). Interior has broad medieval square staircase for full 3 storeys and continued up to 4th storey; engaged newel posts have semicircular insets with central fillet and pendants at top and bottom; worn stone steps in 2 flights between floors; a rare and early survival. The size of the staircase indicates a larger medieval building than the visible remains and it is probable that there are further remains within the extensions. See; Transactions Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian Archaeological Society, new series, xxviii, pp389-392; lxi, pp169-201: ms by David Lockhart Smith (the present owner), Stonegarthside Hall, 1980.
Listing NGR: NY4803981860
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 78164
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lockhart Smith, D, Stonegarthside Hall, (1980)
Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, (), 389-392
Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, (), 169-201
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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