Description

NY 44 SW SKELTON SCALES

5/249 Gatehouse and curtain
wall of Scales Hall

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Gatehouse and short stretch of curtain wall. Late C16. Gatehouse has pink
sandstone rubble walls, under graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and
shaped finials. Wall of similar rubble with battlemented parapet. 2-storey
gatehouse with left wall. Gateway has through segmental archway with roll
moulding, under 3-light stone-mullioned window with hoodmould. An inscription
over this window is too weathered to read. Arch jambs have slots for bars, but
gates now removed. High wall now slopes down to C20 gateway and has survived
because steps giving access to the parapet walk behind also give access to
studded plank door in a chamfered surround which is in the left return wall of
the gatehouse. Rear of gatehouse has been rebuilt in brick over a wooden
lintel. Part of the fortified additions to Scales Hall, probably of 1591 for
the Southaik family and can be compared with similar C16 curtain walls and
gateways at Croglin Low Hall and Askerton Castle; a common feature in
Westmorland, these are rare in Cumberland.

Listing NGR: NY4262140015

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17530633

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Recommended Books

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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)