Belmount Hotel and Adjoining Outbuilding
BELMOUNT HOTEL AND ADJOINING OUTBUILDING, B 5286
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1335776
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Belmount Hotel and Adjoining Outbuilding
- Statutory Address:
- BELMOUNT HOTEL AND ADJOINING OUTBUILDING, B 5286
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1335776
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Belmount Hotel and Adjoining Outbuilding
- Statutory Address 1:
- BELMOUNT HOTEL AND ADJOINING OUTBUILDING, B 5286
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:
- BELMOUNT HOTEL AND ADJOINING OUTBUILDING, B 5286
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hawkshead
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 35200 99302
Details
HAWKSHEAD B5286 SD 39 NE (South side) Belmount Hotel and 6/127 25.3.70 adjoining outbuilding
II
House, now hotel, and outbuilding. Rainwater head dated 1774. Dressed stone with some pebbledash and hipped slate roofs. 3-storey centre of 5 bays has recessed 2-storey, 2-bay wing to left; corresponding wing to right now a ruin; end bays project and have round-headed recesses. Centre has base, band over ground floor and top frieze and cornice. Windows have flat arches and are sashed with glazing bars, those to 2nd floor have vertical glazing bars and horns. Entrance has Tuscan aedicule and half glazed door. Return lateral stacks with flanking rainwater heads. Wing is pebbledashed and has sashed windows with glazing bars, those to ground floor are round-headed. Rear has stair wing under hipped roof, with tall window to centre. Projecting 2-bay gabled wing to left and end bay with horizontally sliding sash with glazing bars to ground floor. Left return has dripcourse and flat-topped porch up steps with wall to yard to right, varied fenestration including small-paned casements. Right return former barn, stables etc., central passageway has ventilation holes to left and stable door and windows to right, with winnowing door and ventilation holes above. Inner return has end bank to barn doors with cat slide pentice and outshut under cat slide roof to right. Loading door over sliding door to right of passageway. Interior of house has cornices and fireplaces to, rooms. Stair has ceiling with Adam-style plaster work; window has stained glass fragments, armorial bearings and religious scene; medieval and C17, possibly some C19. Property of the National Trust, the gift of Beatrix Potter.
Listing NGR: SD3520099302
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 76833
- 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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