Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Eden Hall
	locality:-	Edenhall
	parish	Langwathby parish, once in Cumberland
	county:-	Cumbria
		building/s
	coordinates:-	NY56463226
	10Km square:-	NY53
	1Km square	NY5632
		Eden Hall -- Edenhall -- Langwathby -- Cumbria / -- 8.5.2009 -- An entrance.
		Eden Hall -- Edenhall -- Langwathby -- Cumbria / -- 8.5.2009 -- A door; shut.
	descriptive text:-	Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843)
		Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, et al, 1839; published 1839-52.
		Page 130:-
		...
		Edenhall is the beautiful mansion of the Musgraves, lately rebuilt of white stone in a style of classic elegance. The grounds around it slope gently towards the river, and are highly adorned with wood variously disposed. In the hall is preserved a very curious and beautifully painted drinking-glass, in an ornamented case: this is the 'Luck of Edenhall.' ...
	placename:-	Edenhall
	person:-	: Musgrave Family
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	descriptive text:-	Simpson 1746
		The three volumes of maps and descriptive text published as 'The Agreeable Historian, or the Compleat English Traveller ...', by Samuel Simpson, 1746.
		goto source.
		... Eden Hall, the Seat of Sir Philip Musgrave, Bart. and Knight of the Shire for the County of Westmorland. ...
	placename:-	Eden Hall
	person:-	: Musgrave, Philip, Sir
	date:-	1746
	period:-	18th century, early; 1740s
	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		THE COURT YARD / 40360 / / LANGWATHBY / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74292 / NY5646032268
		courtesy of English Heritage
		Stables and coach houses for Eden Hall, now 7 dwellings and partly stables. Dated 1841 on rainwater heads, for the Musgrave family by Sir Robert Smirke, who rebuilt Edenhall in 1821. Hammer-dressed red sandstone and ashlar walls with string courses and pilasters. Graduated greenslate roofs, with banded ashlar chimney stacks. Large 2-storey many-bay ranges on 3 sides of courtyard, the 4th side lower. Viewed from the courtyard the entrance range has central segmental through archway under octagonal domed cupola, with clock faces on 4 sides. Left 3 bays are domestic, with C20 panelled door and C20 sash and casement windows some in partly-blocked loft doorways. right stables have plank doors and casement windows. The right range has been stables or coach house with a series of segmental-arched doorways under casement windows with glazing bars in stone surrounds. The rear range is now almost entirely domestic. C20 panelled doors and casement windows in original surrounds, some of the windows in partly-blocked loft doorways. Left range is also domestic with panelled door in stone surround in otherwise blank wall. This was close to the mansion house of Edenhall demolished in the mid 1930s.
	placename:-	Court Yard, The
	district:-	Eden
		listed building
	coordinates:-	NY56463226
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s
	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		WALLS AND GATEWAYS IN FRONT OF THE COURTYARD / / / LANGWATHBY / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74294 / NY5645632345
		courtesy of English Heritage
		Gateway piers and walls. Probably 1841 by Sir Robert Smirke as part of the Coach-house group for Edenhall. Walls of red sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. 3 regularly-spaced gateways, with squared rusticated piers under pyramidal caps, all giving access to the Coach-house and associated buildings; joined by high walls with pilasters, each gateway having serpentine curved walls and the piers surmounted by ball finials. The wall extending beyond the end piers at each end is not of interest.
	district:-	Eden
		listed building -- gateway
	coordinates:-	NY56453234
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s
	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		BARN AND STABLES IN FRONT OF THE COURT YARD / 40360 / / LANGWATHBY / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74293 / NY5643332298
		courtesy of English Heritage
		Barn and stables. Mid C19 for the Musgrave family. Red sandstone rubble walls, under graduated greenslate roof, hipped on stables. Large barn with right-angled, single storey 6-bay stables, adjoining the entrance front of The Court Yard. Barn has large central segmental-arched cart entrance now fitted with sliding door. Flanking slit vents. Stables have half plank doors, the roof with vented cupolas. Listed for group value with The Court Yard.
	district:-	Eden
		listed building -- barn; stable
	coordinates:-	NY56433229
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s
	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		GATEWAY PIERS AND WALLS FOR EDEN HALL / / / LANGWATHBY / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74297 / NY5572831575
		courtesy of English Heritage
		Gateway piers and wall for Edenhall Hall. 1830s by George Webster for the Musgrave family. Calciferous sandstone ashlar. Square gate piers on chamfered plinths, the shafts with angle pilasters surmounted by caps with Musgrave family crest. Low flanking rusticated wall with flat coping; square interval piers, the wall turning to form overall U-shape and ending in similar piers, without the crests to the gate. Listed for group value with West Lodge.
	district:-	Eden
		listed building -- gate piers
	coordinates:-	NY55723157
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s
	road book:-	Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802)
		Road book, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, published by G and J Cary, 86 St James's Street, London, 1798-1828.
		page 319-320
		Within a Mile of Longwathby, on r. Edenhall Hall, Sir J. Chardin Musgrave, Bart.
	placename:-	Edenhall Hall
	person:-	: Musgrave, J Chardin, Sir
	date:-	1802
	period:-	19th century, early; 1800s
	old print:-	Morris 1866-80 (vol.2 no.32)
		4 volumes of colour lithographs, A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, edited by Francis Orpen Morris, published by William Mackenzie, 69 Ludgate Hill, London, etc, 1866-80?
		Print, coloured lithograph, Eden Hall, Langwathby, Cumberland, about 1880?
		printed at bottom centre:-
		EDEN HALL.
	placename:-	Eden Hall
	date:-	1880
	period:-	19th century, late
	story	The Luck of Edenhall is a medieval glass chalice probably brought back from The Crusades. BUT the story is that the butler went to draw water from St Cuthbert's Well one night, and saw the fairies and their queen. When disturbed they left the goblet saying:- If the cup should break or fall, farewell to the luck of Edenhall The chalice is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
	references	Robertson, Dawn & Koronka, Peter: 1992: Secrets and Legends of Old Westmorland: Pagan Press (Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria) & Cumbria CC (library service)
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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