Hawkshead Old Hall
HAWKSHEAD OLD HALL, B 5286
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1087223
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Hawkshead Old Hall
- Statutory Address:
- HAWKSHEAD OLD HALL, B 5286
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- Date:
- 2003-08-03
- Reference:
- IOE01/10992/12
- Rights:
- © Mr Gordon Furness. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1087223
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Hawkshead Old Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- HAWKSHEAD OLD HALL, 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:
- HAWKSHEAD OLD HALL, 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 34927 98781
Details
HAWKSHEAD B5286 SD 39 NW (North side) 5/128 Hawkshead Old Hall 18.5.53 (formerly listed as Hawkshead Hall with gatehouse)
GV II*
House. Possibly C17 with medieval origins. Roughcast stone and slate roof with swept valleys. 2 storeys, east facade of 3 bays. 1st bay projects under gable; 2nd bay projects slightly under cat slide roof. 1st bay has inset beam to ground floor, above small recess with wooden door; 1st floor has small-paned casement and small return light. 2nd bay has wooden mullioned stair window of 3 lights with transom and leaded glazing. 3rd bay has 4-light wooden chamfered-mullioned window with intermediate bars to 1st floor over lean-to porch. Glazed doors to 1st and 3rd bays. 1st bay has cruciform cross-axial stack; gable end stack with round shaft. Right return has 2 sashed windows with glazing bars and horns to left of projecting chimney breast, entrance to right. Rear of 4 bays; windows have small-paned casements, but 4th bay has 5-light wooden chamfered-mullioned window with intermediate bars. Right return of 2 bays has dripcourses; sashed windows with glazing bars, those to ground floor with slated lintels, those to 1st floor with horns; gable-end stack with round shaft. Interior has stop-chamfered beams. Winding stair has turned balusters and square newels. The hall was part of the monastic grange of Hawkshead, associated with Furness Abbey, and was originally attached by a south wing to Hawskhead Courthouse (q.v.). A corbel built into the wall of the porch is the original keystone from the courthouse, replaced by a replica.
Listing NGR: SD3492798781
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 76834
- 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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