Description

NY 23 SW BASSENTHWAITE

4/12 Armathwaite Hall Hotel

II

House now hotel. Mid C19 with late C19 extension (on the site of an earlier house) for the Fletcher-Vane family. Dressed red sandstone, with calciferous sandstone ashlar dressings, flush quoins, string courses and battlemented parapet, on plinth of similar material. Graduated greenslate roofs with tall ashlar chimney stacks. 2 storeys of numerous bays with flanking 3-storey towers and right-angled 2½-storey, 5-bay wing, forming overall L-shape. Tudor style. Garden facade has central recessed bays with square tower to right and rectangular tower to left, all with cross-mullioned windows of numerous cusped-headed lights. Right tower has battlemented angle turret. Rear facade has projecting entrance bay, with panelled door in Tudor archway and flanking cusped-headed side lights, all under large cross-mullioned staircase window. Gabled pediment above with Fletcher-Vane coat-of-arms. Large ground-floor windows similar to garden facade and smaller 2 & 3-light stone-mullioned windows. Wing of similar design has 2- and 3-light stone-mullioned windows and segmental-arched dormer windows. Interior has mid C19 rooms with Tudor-style fireplaces and moulded plaster ceilings. Late C19 rooms have wood panelled walls and ceilings. Bar has large German wood fireplace with carved figures and animals.

Listing NGR: NY2063732464

External Links

• Armathwaite Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q15978880

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover