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IoE Number:
75868
Location:
KIRKBY HALL, A595 (east side)
KIRKBY IRELETH, SOUTH LAKELAND, CUMBRIA
Photographer:
N/A
Date Photographed:
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Date listed:
31 August 1988
Date of last amendment:
31 August 1988
Grade
I
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KIRKBY IRELETH
SD 28 45W
19/95 Kirkby Hall
(A595 (east side)
31.8.88
I
Farmhouse and outbuilding. East wing, c1450, hall and west wing c1530.
Roughcast stone rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings; slate roof. South
elevation of 2 storeys and 4 hays. Hipped roof to west end, replaced 1st
bay gable. 4th bay, the east wing, canted back slightly. 3-light double-
chamfered-mullioned windows with label moulds, but 1st bay of ground floor
has 4-light window and 2nd bay has 4-light bay window under lean-to roof.
Entrance to 3rd bay has centred head and continuous moulding. Cross-axial
stack and qable-end stack, both with rounded shafts. 0utbuildinq attached to
south-west angle by wall with bee boles is partly ruinous with remains of
2 cruck trusses. West elevation has large projecting lateral stack with
rounded shaft. Ground floor casement window and blocked 1st floor window.
North elevation has large projecting lateral stack with set offs and rounded
shaft; east wing has gable-end stack with paired rounded shafts; smaller
gabled wing to west. A few casement windows. Last elevation has some casement
windows and entrance. Interior: Entrance passage has timber partition wall
to hall and leads to spiral stair with oak baulks. Hall has large fireplace
with 3-centred arch. North-west angle has diagonal passage to dairy, which
has slate shelving. Last wing has fireplace with 3-centred arch and small
closet to angle. 1st floor of east wing described as having fireplace with
C16 plaster overmantel (CWAAS vol.XIII O.S.). Chapel in west wing,
accessible only from trap door in dairy passage, has open kingpost roof with
arch braces and struts. Wall paintings in red ochre and black: Panels with
stylised trees, animals, birds, etc. with texts above: Lord's prayer, Creed,
Ten Commandments and Galations 5, 16-21 (Great Bible of 1541); a rare
survival; blocked fireplace with 4-centred head; mural closet probably remains
of spiral stair from parlour. Hall has king post trusses similar to those in
chapel; east wing has queen post trusses. An important example of an early
manor house.