MONUMENT NO. 12443

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Scales Hall farmhouse. A traditional Cumbrian farmhouse with attached farm buildings.
The site had previously been interpreted as a fortified manor house but this site had been confused with another Scales Hall at Skelton (Monument Number 1389933).

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(NY 571 431) Scales Hall (1)

"On an L-plan, with a former moat and a gatehouse. Dated 1491, 158?, 1591, and 1724. The gatehouse is of the 1580s, the outer courtyard beyond the moat of 1724." (2)

NY 5706 4301 Only one wing of the hall is extant. It is in fair
condition but not outstanding. No remains of the gatehouse or moat survive.
See photograph. (3)

The building is in fact a farmhouse, of typical Cumbrian layout with attached farm buildings. The building description by Pevsner is actually of another Scales Hall (Mon. No. 1389933) which has been confused with this site. This is why the monument inspector in visiting the site could not find the gatehouse or moat. (4)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1957

( 2) by Nikolaus Pevsner 1967 Cumberland and Westmorland

The buildings of England Page(s)186

( 3) Field Investigators Comments

F1 BHP 30-MAY-72

(4) Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments

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