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Kentmere Hall
In the civil parish of Kentmere.
In the historic county of Westmorland (Modern Authority of Cumbria, 1974 county of Cumbria).
Tower House and attached farmhouse and barn with hayloft over shippon. Tower house C14; farmhouse probably late C14 or early C15 with later alterations and kitchen extension to rear; barn probably C18 alteration of earlier wing. Rubble walls, house rendered, graduated greenslate roofs; single ridge chimney stack to house. Tower has C20 flat roof replacing original pitched roof but was originally 4 storeys including vaulted ground floor. House 2 storeys. Tower has slit openings with flat heads; inserted medieval window in south wall of 2 trefoiled ogee lights in square head with moulded label and blank panel over. House has C20 windows and doors, one of which retains original stone surround; passage doorway has pointed head and continuous chamfered jamb; small window with stone mullions to rear. Interior of Tower has garderobe projection to North West corner; spiral staircase and blocked doorway (probably original entrance) in North East corner.
This site has been described as a;
Pele Tower.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Masonry ruins/remnants remains.
This site is a
Grade 2* listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 76478)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NY45100422
PastScape number;
10918
County Sites and Monuments Record number; 4045
- Web site links
- Books
- Perriam, Denis and Robinson, John, 1998, The Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria (CWAAS) p352-3
Salter, Mike, 1998, The Castles and Tower Houses of Cumbria (Malvern) p67
Emery, Anthony, 1996, Greater Medieval Houses Vol1 (Cambridge) p216
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p270
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p492
Hugill, Robert, 1977, Castles and Peles of Cumberland and Westmorland (Newcastle; Frank Graham) p108-110
Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1967, Buildings of England: Cumberland and Westmorland (Harmondsworth) p259
RCHME, 1936, An inventory of the historical monuments in Westmorland (HMSO) p129-30
Curwen, J.F., 1913, Castles and Fortified Towers of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire North of the Sands (Kendal) p288-90
Taylor, M.W., 1892, Old Manorial Halls of Westmorland and Cumberland (CWAAS extra series Vol8) p219-22
- Journal Articles
- Cropper, 1901, Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Vol1 p280-4
Curwen, 1901, Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Vol1 p285-8
- Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
- Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p481
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