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Latitude: 54.1303 / 54°7'48"N
Longitude: -3.0996 / 3°5'58"W
OS Eastings: 328242
OS Northings: 471048
OS Grid: SD282710
Mapcode National: GBR 6NSP.R5
Mapcode Global: WH72K.CG70
Plus Code: 9C6R4WJ2+45
Entry Name: Aldingham Hall
Listing Date: 8 August 1985
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1086840
English Heritage Legacy ID: 75779
ID on this website: 101086840
Location: Aldingham, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, LA12
County: Cumbria
District: South Lakeland
Civil Parish: Aldingham
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria
Church of England Parish: Aldingham St Cuthbert
Church of England Diocese: Carlisle
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ALDINGHAM
SD 27 SE
19/7 Aldingham Hall
A5087 (off east side)
8.3.85
G.V. II
Large house. 1846-50 by Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt for the Reverend John
Stonard; bequeathed to his butler and left unfinished. Later additions and
alterations. Rough-dressed squared, coursed rubble on moulded plinth; dressed
stone buttresses and details. Graduated slate roofs with moulded copings to
gables and parapets; tower embattled. Perpendicular style; service
courtyard to rear of house. Mainly 2 storeys with central 3-stage tower.
Symmetrical 5-bay garden elevation (1:3:1). Single-storey gabled porch to
north return has architraves with 4-centred heads; glazed inner door.
Garden elevation: Traceried windows under hoodmoulds; 1st floor windows have
central finials carried up above parapet. Wing to either side has canted bay
to ground floor between full-height polygonal clasping buttresses with
conical terminations. Stone paired octagonal chimneys. Interior: Panelled
doors with Perpendicular traceried decoration and 4-centred heads. Beamed
ceilings with foliate bosses; main ground-floor room has massive moulded
beams with pendant busses. 2 tall 4-centred arches separate hall from oak
well staircase in tower; very ornate closed-string stair has pierced
trilobe panels and embattled octagonal newels. Stair-well lit by grisaille
glass windows; painted wooden ceiling. Some original marble fireplace
surrounds.
Listing NGR: SD2824271048
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