Description

NY 43 NW & NY 44 SW SKELTON SCALES

9/248 & 5/248 Scales Hall and
barn adjoining
27.12.67
I

Partly fortified house with extensions and barn. Late C15 or early C16 with C17
and C19 additions and alterations. Late C16 barn. Thick walls of large blocks
of pink sandstone, with extensions of similar sandstone rubble. Graduated
greenslate roofs with coped gables and ball finials; large C17 dressed sandstone
ridge chimney stacks. Barn of similar sandstone rubble under red sandstone
slate roof. 2 storeys, 4 bays with flanking single-bay gabled cross wings and
left rear 2-storey, 4-bay barn. H-shape. Central C20 door in C17 chamfered
stone surround. Left early C16 2-light stone-mullioned windows, with rounded
heads, under continuous hoodmould; and small chamfered-surround firewindow
beyond a sloping buttress. Right sash windows in C19 stone surrounds and
further right blocked window. Upper-floor sash windows in C17 stone architraves
with the central stone mullions removed. Small firewindow over entrance and a
central roof crease, suggesting an extension or porch which would have covered
the firewindow. The left kitchen wing is earlier than the right and has C17
alterations to balance the facade. Former 2-light window, with mullion removed,
under hoodmould; upper-floor large C17 2-light window with dripmould and oval
gable vent. The return wall has 2-light chamfered stone-mullioned windows,
partly blocked and 2 replaced by C19 sashes; small central kitchen firewindow.
Right wing has former 2-light window, with mullion removed, under large C17
mullioned-and-transomed window with dripmould. Return wall has partly-blocked
2-light windows under hoodmoulds, the upper-floor blocked C17 cross-mullioned
window flanked by 3-light similar windows. Rear of original house has a central
C20 studded oak door in C17 quoined surround with keyed lintel under cornice.
Small left casement window in stone surround and upper-floor 2-light flat
stone-mullioned windows. A similar doorway under a sash window in C19 stone
surround to side of kitchen wing. The right wing has a rear 2-bay double gable
with C17 3- and 4-light mullioned windows, those on upper-floor also with
transomes, all under dripmoulds. Oval gable window in pediment and similar
window in return wall. 2-light C17 cellar windows. Barn has the appearance of
a bastle house with extremely thick walls, an off-centre upper-floor chamfered-
surround doorway and 2-light stone mullioned windows. Ground-floor blocked C19
doorway and 2-light flat stone-mullioned windows. Further right casement in C19
surround and left loft doorway. Rear covered by C19 outshut. A reused lintel
dated 1591 in an adjoining barn is a suggested date for this barn. Interior of
original house has a formerly external early C16 gable doorway with studded oak
door, the rear drawbar in its original tunnel. Principal room has large stone
segmental-arched fireplace and a complete Tudor beamed ceiling. Small C17
staircase in right extension. Kitchen wing has late C16 large stone
segmental-arched fireplace and had another, now removed. See Transactions
Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, new series,
xxxii, pp.80-3. One of the earliest houses of this type in Cumbria.

Listing NGR: NY4259140014

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17530630

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