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SMARDALE HALL

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A hall house which dates from the 15th and 16th centuries. The present hall house is of coursed rubble and has a tower at each corner. It has a graduated slate roof with stone chimneys. It is two storeys high with six bays. An attached range of farm buildings once formed the south range to the hall's original courtyard plan. These buildings have slobbered rubble walls with graduated slate roofs and are two storeys high. There was formerly a 14th century tower house since largely demolished, now represented by a newel at the south-east corner of the present house. Earthworks may mark the site of the Mediaval house adcent to that.

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(NY 73920809) Smardale Hall (NR) (1)

Seems to have been rebuilt late in the 16th C on an unusual long rectangular plan with round towers at the angles. A later wing was added to the E of the S end and the building restored late 19th C. (2)

The Hall is in a good state of repair See photograph. (3)

Smardale Hall and adjoining wing of farm buildings Grade I. (4)

Listed with plan. (5)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1957

( 2) Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, England 1936 An inventory of the historical monuments in Westmorland

Plan Page(s)233

( 3) Field Investigators Comments

F1 BHP 25-MAR-74

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

DOE(HHR) Westm N Westm RD Nov 1966 Page(s)108

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

Eden, 06-02-1968 37

(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)306-7

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