Description

NY 23 SW BASSENTHWAITE

4/12 Armathwaite Hall
Hotel

II

House now hotel. Mid C19 with late C19 extension (on the site of an earlier
house) for the Fletcher-Vane family. Dressed red sandstone, with calciferous
sandstone ashlar dressings, flush quoins, string courses and battlemented
parapet, on plinth of similar material. Graduated greenslate roofs with tall
ashlar chimney stacks. 2 storeys of numerous bays with flanking 3-storey towers
and right-angled 2½-storey, 5-bay wing, forming overall L-shape. Tudor style.
Garden facade has central recessed bays with square tower to right and
rectangular tower to left, all with cross-mullioned windows of numerous
cusped-headed lights. Right tower has battlemented angle turret. Rear facade
has projecting entrance bay, with panelled door in Tudor archway and flanking
cusped-headed side lights, all under large cross-mullioned staircase window.
Gabled pediment above with Fletcher-Vane coat-of-arms. Large ground-floor
windows similar to garden facade and smaller 2 & 3-light stone-mullioned
windows. Wing of similar design has 2- and 3-light stone-mullioned windows and
segmental-arched dormer windows. Interior has mid C19 rooms with Tudor-style
fireplaces and moulded plaster ceilings. Late C19 rooms have wood panelled
walls and ceilings. Bar has large German wood fireplace with carved figures and
animals.

Listing NGR: NY2063732464

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Armathwaite Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q15978880

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Recommended Books

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)