Description

NY 34 NE DALSTON Hawkesdale

10/137 Hawkesdale Hall

G.V. II*

House. Late C17 with addition dated and inscribed over rear entrance 1704 J. & M.N. (Nicholson). Painted rendered walls,with V-jointed quoins and heavily moulded cornice,on chamfered painted plinth. Graduated greenslate roof;painted stone chimney stacks. Extension: painted render over brick; graduated slate roof; large square painted stone chimney stack. 3 storeys, 5 bays; 2-storey, 3-bay extension to right. C20 door with glazed fanlight in painted roll moulded architrave with pulvinated frieze. Early C19 glazed wooden porch with panelled pilasters and radial fanlight. Sash windows with broad glazing bars in painted chamfered surrounds under moulded cornices. Yorkshire sash windows in chamfered painted surrounds on second floor. Newcastle fire insurance company mark over entrance. Interior: Late C17 staircase for full 3 storeys with barley-twist balusters and broad moulded handrail. Ground floor room right of hall has heavily carved and moulded C18 stone fireplace; flanking panelled cupboard to right and half-domed shelved recess to left, all in eared architraves. Room left of hall has panelled plaster ceiling. Panelled doors throughout. Late C17 wooden panelled first floor bedroom. Extension: 2- & 3-light stone-mullioned windows in chamfered stone surrounds. Known as Hawkesdale Low House in 1694 when John Nicholson, brother of the Bishop of Carlisle, was the owner. His son Joseph, resident in the house until his death, was joint author with Dr Richard Burn of a History of Westmorland and Cumberland published in 1777. See Transactions Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, new series, lv, pp345-6.

Listing NGR: NY3746447710

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