BLENCOW HALL

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Fortified house with gatehouse wing constructed during the late 15th century with additions and alterations of 1590 and further 20th century alterations.Two-storey 4-bay hall with flanking rectangular 3-storey single-bay towers, the left tower extending to the rear as a 2-storey, 5-bay gatehouse wing, forming overall, an H-shape.

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[NY 4501 3260] Blencow Hall [G.T.] (1)

Blencow Hall with tower probably built about the beginning of the 16th cent. in imitation of a Pele. The date stone 1590 gives the
date of the building of the central block. The building at the rear
thought to be a chapel probably results from a Gothic window
re-used. (2-3)

The SW tower is apparently the earliest structure with a later twin added to the NE: both are derelict. The 1590 dated central block and the 16th cent. south wing are restored and occupied.

The pointed arch window surround survives in a simple one-room stone building at NY 44993262 [Chapel (LB) published on OS 25"]. There is a strong local tradition of its original use as a chapel.

See GPs AO/66/193/1, 2, 3. (4)

Blencow Hall Grade 1 (5)

Listed with plan and illustration. (6)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" (Prov.) 1957

( 2) Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society

11, 1891 Page(s)73-80

( 3) Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society

7, 1937 Page(s)120-27

( 4) Field Investigators Comments

F1 FRH 06-DEC-66

( 5) List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest

Penrith Rural District, August 1966 Page(s)21

(6) Denis R Perriam and John Robinson 1998 The medieval fortified buildings of Cumbria : an illustrated gazetteer and research guide

Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society extra series vol.29 Page(s)180

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