Lorton Hall Winder House
LORTON HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1145183
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Lorton Hall Winder House
- Statutory Address:
- LORTON HALL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1145183
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lorton Hall Winder House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LORTON HALL
- Statutory Address 2:
- WINDER HOUSE
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:
- LORTON HALL
- Statutory Address:
- WINDER HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lorton
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 15281 25763
Details
LORTON LOW LORTON
NY 12 NE
10/146 Lorton Hall and
Winder House (previously listed
as "Lorton Hall")
G.V. II
3-3-67
Tower house and wing, now divided into 2 dwellings. Probably mid or late C15
with C16 wing; alterations dated 1663, 1880 and 1904. Mixed slate rubble,
partly rendered, under graduated greenslate roof with ashlar chimney stacks, the
tower roof within battlemented parapet. Square 3-storey, 2-bay tower with rear
C19 2-storey 3-bay extension in similar style and lower 2-storey, 7-bay wing now
Winder House. Tower has C19 fenestration; irregular 2- and 3-light windows,
some in Tudor style under hoodmoulds, the others without hoods; and ground-floor
mullioned and transomed windows. Winder House has C17 fenestration with
extensive C19 alterations; centre 3-light window was originally entrance under
hoodmould and pediment; enlarged 2-light ground-floor windows under 3-light
stone-mullioned windows with continuous hoodmould and individual pediments.
Rear of tower has Tudor-style doorway and 2-light windows. Rear of Winder House
similar, with C19 2-, 3- and 4-light windows. Interior of tower is completely
late C19 and early C20 panelled woodwork, with moulded plaster ceilings. Other
features claimed by a previous owner to be original, such as a concrete vault
and spiral staircase in the tower (see Pevsner, Buildings of England, Cumberland
& Westmorland, ppl58-9) and dated plasterwork in Winder House, are extremely
dubious. The same owner painted C16 and C17 portraits of his ancestors to hang
on the walls of his house and opened the building to the public. The adjoining
stables, now The Stables, is a separate dwelling with extensive alterations and
is not of interest.
Listing NGR: NY1528125763
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 72670
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cumberland and Westmorland, (1967), 158-9
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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