HOLKER HALL AND TERRACE WALL APPROXIMATELY 70 METRES TO GARDEN TO SOUTH EAST

HOLKER HALL AND TERRACE WALL APPROXIMATELY 70 METRES TO GARDEN TO SOUTH EAST, B5278

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1335814
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:: HOLKER HALL AND TERRACE WALL APPROXIMATELY 70 METRES TO GARDEN TO SOUTH EAST
Statutory Address:: HOLKER HALL AND TERRACE WALL APPROXIMATELY 70 METRES TO GARDEN TO SOUTH EAST, B5278

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1335814
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:: HOLKER HALL AND TERRACE WALL APPROXIMATELY 70 METRES TO GARDEN TO SOUTH EAST
Statutory Address 1:: HOLKER HALL AND TERRACE WALL APPROXIMATELY 70 METRES TO GARDEN TO SOUTH EAST, B5278

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: HOLKER HALL AND TERRACE WALL APPROXIMATELY 70 METRES TO GARDEN TO SOUTH EAST, B5278

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

District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lower Holker
National Grid Reference:: SD 35909 77383

Details

LOWER HOLKER B5278 SD 37 NE (West side) Holker 5/126 Holker Hall and 25.3.70 terrace wall approx 70m to garden to south-east G.V. II* House, part now flats. 1720s with extensions and alterations, 1783 ff, by J. Carr; re-facing and low office wing 1838-42 by G. Webster. West wing 1871-5 by Paley and Austin. Terrace wall cl9lO by T.W. Mawson. Roughcast stone resembling dressed stone, with ashlar dressings and slate roof, south-west facade plain roughcast. West wing of ashlar. North-east facade of 2 storeys and 12 bays, 5th to 9th bays breaking forward. 1st floor sill band and modillioned cornice. Windows have architraves and are sashed with glazing bars in elongated hexagon pattern. 7th bay has segmental-headed entrance has 6-panel door, side lights and fanlight with glazing bars; bays to left has inserted C20 garage doors. Top panel with gable and round recess; octagonal open cupola on square base. End bay arched throughway. Cross-axial and return lateral stacks. South-east facade similar, of 3 bays. Bowed stair bay has Venetian window, small projecting wing also has Venetian window. North-west facade is of one storey, end gabled bay with round-headed openings and cross-axial stacks; gable end has bowed stair bay with segmental-pointed windows with sashes as to north-east facade, and similar trefoil-headed window. South-east facade of 3 storeys with attic 8 bays. Parapet and 2 gables. Windows mostly 2-light hollow-chamfered-mullioned windows with labels; 2nd bay has full-height canted bay window with embattled parapet. Early C20 Garden room to end has 3 round arches, late C20 wall paintings. Courtyard has varied fenestration; entrance with Doric porch. West wing of 2 storeys with attic. Richly ornamental; string courses, pierced parapets, coped gables, octagonal stacks and mullioned and transomed windows. South-east facade of 7 bays. 1st 2 bays project under gable with stack and octagonal pinnacles, 3rd bay has re-entrant porch with pinnacles and 2-stage octagonal tower with ogival cupola, 4th-6th bays have hipped dormers, 7th bay forms 4-stage square tower with lead pyramidal roof. North-west facade of 5 bays with bowed angle bay, 2nd bay 2-storey canted bay window and gabled dormer, canted oriel to 4th bay and dormer, dormer to 5th bay. South-west end of 3 bays, bay window with triangular projection, 2 gabled dormers. Interior, older part has 2 flying stairs, room with C17 panelling from Raven Winder (q.v.) and fireplace from farm at Conishead, 2 twisted wood columns from Germany. West wing has rich decoration, ornate panelling, plaster ceilings and alabaster fireplaces. 2 round arches to open well stair. Some C16 or C17 fireplaces and fireplace with Wedgewood jasperware plaques. The west wing is an outstanding work by an important northern architectural firm. See Country Life, 2616.80 and 3.7.80 and guidebook.

Listing NGR: SD3590977383

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Sources

Books and journals
'Country Life' in 26 June, (1980)
'Country Life' in 3 July, (1980)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 9 Cumbria,

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.