Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Heversham Hall
	locality:-	Heversham
	parish	Heversham parish, once in Westmorland
	county:-	Cumbria
		building/s
	coordinates:-	SD49418331
	10Km square:-	SD48
	1Km square	SD4983
	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		HEVERSHAM HALL / / / HEVERSHAM / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 76511 / SD4938283241
		courtesy of English Heritage
		House, probably C14 with C16 and later alterations, later additions to East and West. Stone rubble walls with roughly cut quoins and sandstone dressings; graduated greenslate roof with stone ridge and 2 end chimneys. 2 storeys plus attics lit from gable. 4 windows, irregular: ground floor cross windows with trefoil heads to lights, right hand window blocked; upper floor 2-light windows with square heads, all with chamfered mullions and surrounds, leaded glazing and small iron opening panes. Off-centre doorway with chamfered surround and pointed-arched head, later 8-panelled door inserted behind arch. Rear: similar mullioned windows and one C19 mullioned window to upper floor; extension with plinth to south gable and massive chimney with round stack; ruined wall of Pele tower. Interior has flagged floors, chamfered oak beams, fireolace with segmental arched head with later fireplace inserted within it, oak doors, fragments of C17 panelling to ground and upper floors; late C17 or early C18 staircase with closed string, square newels and moulded balusters; 4-bay roof with principals pegged at apex, ridge piece, collars and 3 levels of trenched purlins with deep chamfers.
	placename:-	Heversham Hall
	district:-	South Lakeland
		listed building
	coordinates:-	SD49388324
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s
		photographs
		Heversham Hall -- Heversham -- Heversham -- Cumbria / -- 8.2.2011
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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