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Castlesteads

A Grade II Listed Building in Walton, Cumberland

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Latitude: 54.9618 / 54°57'42"N

Longitude: -2.7646 / 2°45'52"W

OS Eastings: 351139

OS Northings: 563288

OS Grid: NY511632

Mapcode National: GBR 9C42.83

Mapcode Global: WH7ZS.HKR1

Plus Code: 9C6VX66P+P5

Entry Name: Castlesteads

Listing Date: 16 January 1984

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1311730

English Heritage Legacy ID: 77970

ID on this website: 101311730

Location: Cumberland, Cumbria, CA8

County: Cumberland

District: Carlisle

Civil Parish: Walton

Traditional County: Cumberland

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria

Church of England Parish: Lanercostwith Kirkcambeck St Mary Magdalene

Church of England Diocese: Carlisle

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Description


NY 56 SW WALTON

10/179 Castlesteads

II

House. Late C18 for John Johnson with mid C19 alterations. Hammer dressed red sandstone with chamfered ashlar plinth, pilaster strips to angles, string course, moulded and dentilled cornice with parapet; slate roof, ashlar chimney stacks with moulded cornices. 2 storeys, 7 bays with flanking wings of 2 storeys, 3 bays. Top glazed panelled doors have radial fanlight, engaged Doric columns with plain entablature and dentilled triangular pediment. 2-pane sash windows have plain stone surrounds. Wings have round head sashes to ground floor ending in tripartite sashes with glazing bars and decorated round headed frieze. Upper floor windows have pilaster strip surrounds broken by rusticated blocks, moulded triangular pediments and console bracketed sills. Rainwater heads dated 1867. Wings extend in L-shape to side, of 5 bays. Rear has apsidal staircase projections; all rear windows sashes with glazing bars. W. Hutchinson, History of Cumberland, 1794, vol I, p118, refers to the newly constructed mansion, the estate having been purchased by Mr Johnson in 1789. This probably replaced an earlier house of the Dacre family, known to have been on this site and built with stone from the nearby Roman Wall. Called Walton House when built.

Listing NGR: NY5113963288

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