Clarghyll Hall
Has been described as a Certain Bastle
There are masonry ruins/remnants remains
Name | Clarghyll Hall |
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Historic Country | Cumberland |
Modern Authority | Cumbria |
1974 Authority | Cumbria |
Civil Parish | Alston Moor |
Large house of several periods: C16 bastle, heightened and extended to north in late C17 for Nicholas Whitfield; further extended to north for Thomas Whitfield mid/late C18. Top floor of tower, east wing, and north study/chapel (incorporating remains of another bastle) added c1860 (date on tower's north gable.) Coursed squared rubble with quoins; C19 work of ashlar. North wing has stone-flagged roof with stone mid and end chimneys; C19 roofs of welsh slate with corbie-stepped gables and end chimney to tower; 3 gables on north side of east wing with castellated octagonal chimney to south side. L-shaped with 3-storey tower to left of centre, 2-storey north wing and projecting east wing of one tall storey, all with undercrofts. Tower undercroft retains original semicircular-headed door to bastle, with draw-bar slot and pivot-holes, now opening off C17 cross-passage. Heavy oak beams carry stone-flagged floor above. (Listed Building Report)
Not scheduled
This is a Grade 2* listed building protected by law
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OS Map Grid Reference | NY725493 |
Latitude | 54.8378715515137 |
Longitude | -2.42877006530762 |
Eastings | 372570 |
Northings | 549330 |