Description

HAVERTHWAITE

1268/10/75 BIGLAND HALL
25-MAR-70

II

House. Late C16 and C17, remodelled and extended in 1809. Roughcast stone with slate roofs.
EXTERIOR: South-east facade of 2 storeys and 5 bays; the central bay breaks forward. 1st floor sill band and top cornice and coped parapet; hipped roof; quoins. Windows are sashed with glazing bars, that to central bay of 1st floor has architrave, consoled frieze and cornice, the frieze with relief lion passant reguardant holding wheatear, blocks to ends with pairs of wheatears (Bigland). Entrance has Doric porch with paired columns; vaulting boarded over (1986); outer door and paired half-glazed inner doors and overlight with glazing bars. 2
cross-axial stacks, and 2 stacks to rear slope. Left return has conservatory
and projecting flat-roofed block; round-headed stair window with glazing bars.
Rear wing has double-pitch roof; sashed windows, most with glazing bars, left
return has conservatory and large garage door; right return has projecting
gabled wing with smaller parallel wing to rear, which has paired gable-end
stacks with bell between. Rear has round headed stair window with glazing
bars.
INTERIOR: Extensive and complex multi-phase plan form with many surviving examples of panelled doors, moulded architraves, panelled window reveals, plaster cornices and a good range of hearths. Entrance hall has 2 busts in niches.
Room in rear wing has fireplace bressummer, probably C16 or early C17, with
initials: 'BMB NG' (The 'N' reversed). 'NG' originally thought to be date:
1161. Three of the reception rooms are thought to be attributable to John Hird, and some interior decoration possibly by Webster of Kendal.
SD3546683146

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26519512

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)