Kentmere Hall and Attached Barn

KENTMERE HALL AND ATTACHED BARN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1086547
Date first listed:
21-Nov-1952
List Entry Name:
Kentmere Hall and Attached Barn
Statutory Address:
KENTMERE HALL AND ATTACHED BARN
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1086547
Date first listed:
21-Nov-1952
List Entry Name:
Kentmere Hall and Attached Barn
Statutory Address 1:
KENTMERE HALL AND ATTACHED BARN

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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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
KENTMERE HALL AND ATTACHED BARN

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

District:
Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Kentmere
National Park:
Lake District
National Grid Reference:
NY 45100 04236

Details

NY 40 SE KENTMERE HODGSON BROW, Kentmere 4/8 21/11/52 Kentmere Hall and attached barn

G.V. II*

Tower House and attached farmhouse and barn with hayloft over shippon. Tower house C14; farmhouse probably late C14 or early C15 with later alterations and kitchen extension to rear; barn probably C18 alteration of earlier wing. Rubble walls, house rendered, graduated greenslate roofs; single ridge chimney stack to house. Tower has C20 flat roof replacing original pitched roof but was originally 4 storeys including vaulted ground floor. House 2 storeys. Tower has slit openings with flat heads; inserted medieval window in south wall of 2 trefoiled ogee lights in square head with moulded label and blank panel over. House has C20 windows and doors, one of which retains original stone surround; passage doorway has pointed head and continuous chamfered jamb; small window with stone mullions to rear. Interior of Tower has garderobe projection to North West corner; spiral staircase and blocked doorway (probably original entrance) in North East corner. See also R.C.H.M. P.130.

Listing NGR: NY4510004236

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
76478
Legacy System:
LBS

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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.

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