Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Cowmire Hall | |
| parish |
Crosthwaite and Lyth
parish, once in Westmorland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| building/s | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD42738872 | |
| 10Km square:- |
SD48
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| 1Km square | SD4288 | |
 Cowmire Hall -- Crosthwaite and Lyth -- Cumbria / -- 31.12.2005 | ||
 Cowmire Hall -- Crosthwaite and Lyth -- Cumbria / -- 7.4.2006 | ||
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| COWMIRE HALL AND WALL RUNNING APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES TO EAST, WITH GATE PIERS / / / CROSTHWAITE AND LYTH / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 77089 / SD4275188713 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| House. Late C16 tower house, with C17 addition. Stone rubble, mostly roughcast, slate roofs. East facade of 3 storeys and 6 bays. Central entrance plan. Dripcourses. Windows have wooden chamfered cross-mullion windows, with iron opening lights, those to ground floor with intermediate bars; paired windows to 5th and 6th bays. Entrance has limestone quoins, round hood and 6-fielded-panel door with overlight. Gable-end stacks with rounded shafts. South return has C20 casements. North return has window in former entrance and 2nd floor casements; 3 dripcourses. West gabled wing, the tower, has to south a 4-light mullioned window with round-headed lights, iron grille and label mound, similar 3-light window to 2nd floor; north elevation of exposed stone has similar windows with flat relieving arches and wooden cross-mullion windows to left; later lean-to and flat-roofed porch. Projecting gable-end stack and cross-axial stack with rounded shafts, lean-to garderobe projection. To south of west wing a glazed door and cross-mullion window to rear of later wing. Interior has re-used beams to ground floor. Shaped brackets for hanging shelves. Former kitchen fireplace has 4 stone posts with infill and cupboard with wide-boarded door to right; spice cupboard above entrance passage to left. Stone fireplace has vine trail and roundel with Fleming arms, fire back has lion passant guardant roses and thistles dated 1649. C17 6-panel door with top relief frieze. Beam shows signs of original partition. Tower has 2 barrel vaulted chambers. End room has 6-bolection-panel door and bolection-moulded fireplace. Stair has square newels with ball finials and pendants, turned balusters and moulded handrail. 1st floor has 2 bolection-panel doors, some with dado rails. Tower has hollow and chamfered beams and run out stops, garderobe has wood seat. 2nd floor has 2-panel doors, stud and plaster partitions. Roof has collar and tie trusses. Wall extends east from north-east angle of house, stone rubble, ashlar gate piers towards eastern end have cornices and ball finials. | ||
| placename:- | Cowmire Hall | |
| district:- | South Lakeland | |
| listed building -- gate piers | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD42758871 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| OUTBUILDINGS TO WEST AND NORTH OF COWMIRE HALL / / / CROSTHWAITE AND LYTH / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 77090 / SD4272888736 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Farmbuildings around 3 sides of courtyard, with the Hall to east end of south range. South range and east half of north range probably early C18, the rest mid-late C19. Stone rubble with slate roofs. South range has to north elevation a wide through passage to east of ramp leading to barge entrance with pentice. 6-light chamfered wooden-mullion window rebated for glazing and with 4-intermediate bars over passage. South elevation has dripcourses, paired doors to passage, with ventilation slots over, inserted window. West gable end has entrance with pentice, window and ventilation slots. 2 tie beam and strut trusses and 2 C19 kingpost trusses; cow house has some chamfered beams and stop-chamfered joists. West range adjoins to north (with limestone trough in angle), C19 bank barn with limestone quoins. Gable-end ball finials. West elevation has pentice on limestone brackets over 6 cow house entrances, one now window. Some slate partitions. Winnowing door towards north end. East elevation has ramp to north end, with entrance with canopy on limestone brackets. Entrance, entrance now window and window to south; passage through ramp. Owl hole in gable end. North range western part has 2 large openings with central limestone piers to south elevation possibly a later insertion, entrance to granary from barn ramp; granary has slate skirting and corn bins. Eastern end has 2 entrances and 3 windows to stables, loading door to western part, 1st floor entrance up steps to eastern part, with 6-light chamfered wooden-mullion window with 2 remaining intermediate bars to left. Central straight joint indicates possible rebuilding of part of wall. North elevation has blocked entrance and small windows. East gable-end has small 1st floor window. Interior of eastern end has remains of chimney hood to 1st floor, later fireplace to gable end. | ||
| district:- | South Lakeland | |
| listed building | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD42728873 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| hearsay |
17th century house enclosing a pele tower.
Inscription at the bottom of an east window, in Latin:- Pray for the souls of Miles Brigg and of Johana his wife benefactors of this Church and another:- Wilm Brigg goeth to london upon tusday XIth day of Aprill God protect hym | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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