Islekirk Hall
ISLEKIRK HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1274096
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Islekirk Hall
- Statutory Address:
- ISLEKIRK HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1274096
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Islekirk Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- ISLEKIRK HALL
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:
- ISLEKIRK HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Westward
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 25943 44526
Details
NY 24 SE WESTWARD
7/186 Islekirk Hall (formerly listed as 11.4.67 Islekirk Hall and adjoining cottage)
II*
House. Mid C16 with late C17 and C19 alterations. Red sandstone rubble and dressed stone on chamfered plinth. Graduated greenslate roof with stone chimney stacks. Extension of coursed red sandstone rubble under Welsh slate roof with brick chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 7 bays, with lower 2-bay extension to left. 2 top-glazed panelled doors in C19 painted stone surrounds. Sash windows, those on both floors in 3 left bays in painted architraves with cross-mullions removed; those to right in painted stone surrounds; 2 upper-floor painted false windows. End wall to left has 3-light stone-mullioned window with round-headed lights, partly blocked by extension. Extension has plank door in alternate-block surround. Sash windows with glazing bars in painted stone surrounds. Rear wall of house was the original front. Plank door in C19 stone surround, which is blocking a former window or doorway of which 3-lights remain above, partly blocked. 0thers 2- and 3-light double-chamfered with round-headed lights, 2 blocked, those on extreme left with mullions removed and upper floor window enlarged. Projecting 2-storey and single-storey outshuts cover remainder of facade and are not of interest. 2 stones with diamond broaching suggest that these and other stones come from the Roman fort at Old Carlisle nearby. Site of the Hermitage of St Hilda. Tenanted by the Barwis family as early as 1529 and was granted to them in 1544, remaining in that family until 1708. See Hudleston & Boumphrey, Cumberland Families and Heraldry, 1978, pl5; Transactions Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, new series, 1, pp135-151; li, ppl17-136.
Listing NGR: NY2594344526
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 416212
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hudleston, , Boumphrey, , Cumberland Families and Heraldry, (1978), 15
Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, (), 117-136
Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, (), 135-151
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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