Description

NZ 60 NE WESTERDALE MAIN STREET
Westerdale
West side (off)

6/146 Westerdale Hall

II

House, now Youth Hostel. Shooting-box for the Duncombe family,
before 1874.
Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; Lakeland slate
and lead roofs. Baronial Tudor style. Square plan with canted
south-eastern extensions enclosing service courtyard.

Very irregular elevations ranging in height from 1 to 5 storeys,
with even higher tower stair turret. Crow-stepped gables. Stone-
mullioned windows of varying sizes, some with transoms; window
woodwork mostly replaced.

Entrance front 2 storeys and attics of varying heights, 3 irregular
bays. Central open porch with Tudor arch and blank shield over.
Tudor-arched inner door. At left the canted screen wall has
another such door and to left of it an octagonal pavilion with
tented lead roof. Right return has battered lower courses and some
original leaded glazing in window heads. 3-bay garden front has
gabled left bay with 2-storey square window projection, central
stair window with armorial glass, and massive 5-storey battlemented
tower at right.

Row of conjoined diagonal stacks above the left ridge and another
row on the 2-storey service wing on south side of courtyard.

Pevsner, N. Riding p.384.

Listing NGR: NZ6625106020

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26473810

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Recommended Books

• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability