Hawkesdale Hall
HAWKESDALE HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1335649
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Hawkesdale Hall
- Statutory Address:
- HAWKESDALE HALL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1335649
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Hawkesdale Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- HAWKESDALE 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:
- HAWKESDALE HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dalston
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 37464 47710
Details
NY 34 NE DALSTON Hawkesdale
10/137 Hawkesdale Hall
G.V. II*
House. Late C17 with addition dated and inscribed over rear entrance 1704 J. & M.N. (Nicholson). Painted rendered walls,with V-jointed quoins and heavily moulded cornice,on chamfered painted plinth. Graduated greenslate roof;painted stone chimney stacks. Extension: painted render over brick; graduated slate roof; large square painted stone chimney stack. 3 storeys, 5 bays; 2-storey, 3-bay extension to right. C20 door with glazed fanlight in painted roll moulded architrave with pulvinated frieze. Early C19 glazed wooden porch with panelled pilasters and radial fanlight. Sash windows with broad glazing bars in painted chamfered surrounds under moulded cornices. Yorkshire sash windows in chamfered painted surrounds on second floor. Newcastle fire insurance company mark over entrance. Interior: Late C17 staircase for full 3 storeys with barley-twist balusters and broad moulded handrail. Ground floor room right of hall has heavily carved and moulded C18 stone fireplace; flanking panelled cupboard to right and half-domed shelved recess to left, all in eared architraves. Room left of hall has panelled plaster ceiling. Panelled doors throughout. Late C17 wooden panelled first floor bedroom. Extension: 2- & 3-light stone-mullioned windows in chamfered stone surrounds. Known as Hawkesdale Low House in 1694 when John Nicholson, brother of the Bishop of Carlisle, was the owner. His son Joseph, resident in the house until his death, was joint author with Dr Richard Burn of a History of Westmorland and Cumberland published in 1777. See Transactions Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, new series, lv, pp345-6.
Listing NGR: NY3746447710
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 78323
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Vol. 55, (), 345-6
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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