Burneside Hall
BURNESIDE HALL, HALL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1289216
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Burneside Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BURNESIDE HALL, HALL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1289216
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Burneside Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BURNESIDE HALL, HALL ROAD
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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:
- BURNESIDE HALL, HALL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Strickland Roger
- National Grid Reference:
- SD5099195934
Details
SD 59 NW STRICKLAND ROGER HALL ROAD
6/47 Burneside Hall
21.11.52
G.V. II*
Large House, now subdivided. Mainly C14 with later alterations. Stone rubble
walls with quoins, mostly roughcast rendered; graduated green slate roof with
interlaced valley; 3 chimney stacks to Hall. Projecting stepped chimney to
rear; 2 C19 chimneys to wing at right, one with 4 diagonal square shafts. Hall
with crosswings. Solar block to North (now ruined) is in form of Tower having
vaulted basements with passage between and incorporates fragments of earlier
structure in North wall. Original door with pointed head leading to newel
staircase has Mason's mark in C13 style. Hall was originally at first floor
level and late C17 drawing by Rev Thomas Machell shows it as such. Original
entrance doorway on South West side now has a reversed mullioned window set into
it where Machell shows external stair. South wing now gabled; shown by Machell
with battlements. Present entrance at rear has original pointed arched head.
Front elevation retains stone mullioned windows, 3 of those to upper floor
having trefoil heads.
Interior retains many original features including a number of doors with pointed
arched heads in present kitchen; pre C17 panelled screen to first floor Hall;
remains of C17 plaster ceiling and frieze now partly obscured by C20 partitions
in South wing.
Former outbuildings attached to South and converted to holiday cottage during
C20 not included in listing.
References:
R.C.H.M.
The drawing of Burneside Hall in late C17 is in:
Jane M Ewbank (Editor) The Antiquary on Horseback C&W extra series Vol. XIX,
p.101.
Listing NGR: SD5099195934
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 76431
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society: Volume 19, ,Vol. , (), 101
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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