Description

NY 45 NE HAYTON

4/58 Edmond Castle

G.V. II

Community Home formerly house. Late C18 house, altered and extended by Sir Robert Smirke 1824-27, for Thomas Henry Graham, with further extensions 1844-46 by Sydney Smirke for the same owner; C20 alterations and additions by the Home Office and Cumbria County Council. Calciferous sandstone ashlar, green slate roofs, ashlar chimney stacks; extensions of similar stone. Roughly T-shaped. Entrance front has original house right, 2 storeys, 5 bays, with single storey C20 brick wing at right angles (not included in listing). Faced with ashlar 1824-27; sash windows with glazing bars have continuous drip mould and 2 gabled dormers. Rear wall of English garden wall bond brickwork, has late C18 round- headed window with intersecting glazing bars. Central 2 bays left have similar windows with shaped parapet and carved arms of the Grahams. Large 2-storey, 3- bay extension left is of 1824-27. Central recessed bay has prostyle porch of 1846; octagonal angle columns, pointed arches, decorated frieze and battlemented parapet. Large flanking triple sash windows with chamfered mullions and glazing bars; 2-light mullioned sash windows with glazing bars above. Shaped false gable dormers to each face. Garden front and rear have canted bay windows, with decorated friezes and battlemented parapets. Chapel extension of 1844 at right angles to rear, has mullioned windows, with 2-storey canted bay window, all with pointed arches. C20 brick extension to garden front (not included in listing). 3-storey octagonal angle tower of 1846, has lancet windows and large pointed filled bell openings; leaded cupola. Square 3-storey turret of 1845, to rear of house, adjoins chapel; pyramidal leaded roof with lucarnes. Courtyard buildings adjoin single storey outbuilding, extending from end wall of chapel. Interior of house retains many original features; panelled doors, moulded plaster ceilings, stone fireplaces behind later panelling and library bookcases. Approximately 40 drawings by both architects dated between 1824 and 1846, of the house and individual details of the exterior and interior, are in Carlisle Record Office, (DX/983). Graham family left 1937 andhouse became Approved School 1942. Listing does not include C20 brick extensions.

Listing NGR: NY4972058571

External Links

• Edmond Castle at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5338847

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
• 
  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
• 
  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
• 
  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)