Reagill Grange

Has been described as a Questionable Fortified Manor House, and also as a Questionable Fortified Ecclesiastical site

There are masonry ruins/remnants remains

NameReagill Grange
Alternative NamesRenegill
Historic CountryWestmorland
Modern AuthorityCumbria
1974 AuthorityCumbria
Civil ParishCrosby Ravensworth

Reagill Grange (Plate 20), over 1½ m. N.N.W. of the church, is of two storeys; the walls are of rubble and the roofs are slate-covered. It appears to have belonged to the families of Wharton and Daws. The main block was built late in the 16th century and the N. wing was added in 1700. The house retains many of its original windows with moulded labels, but some of them have lost their mullions. On the S. front is a two-storeyed porch with an original doorway having a triangular arch in a square head and fitted with a nail-studded door. At the back is a gabled projection enclosing a newel staircase. The windows of the N. wing have been mostly altered; there is a re-set door-head with the initials and date T. and E.D. 1700, and a window with a re-set pointed head. The chimneystacks of the main block have cylindrical shafts. Inside the building are some original stone doorways and above a fireplace on the first floor is a panel with the modern date 1652.

There is said to have been a chapel about 70 yards N.E. of the house, but the site is overgrown and there are now no visible traces of walls or foundations.

Condition—Good. (RCHME 1936)

Gatehouse Comments

Possible fortified manorial hall. Mainly C17 construction and wall not particularly thick, may be based on fortified monastic grange. Although listed as a fortified house by Perriam and Robinson it seems unlikely there were anything fortified about the post dissolution building other than the slightest domestic security. The destroyed grange was slight enough to be pretty fully destroyed and this suggests this was also not particularly fortified.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

This is a Grade 2* listed building protected by law

Historic England Scheduled Monument Number
Historic England Listed Building number(s)
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Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceNY607169
Latitude54.5466690063477
Longitude-2.6078999042511
Eastings360760
Northings516990
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Books

  • Perriam, Denis and Robinson, John, 1998, The Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria (Kendal: CWAAS Extra Series 29) p. 305 (plan)
  • RCHME, 1936, An inventory of the historical monuments in Westmorland (HMSO) p. 81 no. 8 online transcription
  • Curwen, J.F., 1932, ''Parishes (West Ward): St Laurence, Crosby Ravensworth' The Later Records relating to North Westmorland: or the Barony of Appleby p. 302-24 online transcription
  • Bland, J.S. (edited by F.H.M. Parker), 1910, Vale of Lyvennet, its picturesque peeps and legendary lore (Kendal: Titus Wilson) p. 84-90 online copy
  • Taylor, M.W., 1892, Old Manorial Halls of Westmorland and Cumberland (Kendal: CWAAS Extra Series 8) p. 116 online copy