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© Mr Adrian Allchin
IoE Number:
76478
Location:
KENTMERE HALL AND ATTACHED BARN,
KENTMERE, SOUTH LAKELAND, CUMBRIA
Photographer:
Mr Adrian Allchin
Date Photographed:
04 July 2006
Date listed:
21 November 1952
Date of last amendment:
21 November 1952
Grade
II*
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NY 40 SE KENTMERE HODGSON BROW,
Kentmere
4/8
21/11/52 Kentmere Hall and
attached barn
G.V. II*
Tower House and attached farmhouse and barn with hayloft over shippon. Tower
house C14; farmhouse probably late C14 or early C15 with later alterations and
kitchen extension to rear; barn probably C18 alteration of earlier wing. Rubble
walls, house rendered, graduated greenslate roofs; single ridge chimney stack to
house. Tower has C20 flat roof replacing original pitched roof but was
originally 4 storeys including vaulted ground floor. House 2 storeys. Tower
has slit openings with flat heads; inserted medieval window in south wall of 2
trefoiled ogee lights in square head with moulded label and blank panel over.
House has C20 windows and doors, one of which retains original stone surround;
passage doorway has pointed head and continuous chamfered jamb; small window
with stone mullions to rear. Interior of Tower has garderobe projection to
North West corner; spiral staircase and blocked doorway (probably original
entrance) in North East corner. See also R.C.H.M. P.130.