Hesket Hall

Hesket Hall is a manor house that later became a farmhouse, built in the mid or late 17th century for Sir Wilfrid Lawson. The building features cement rendered walls with flush stone quoins, each marked by an individual mason's mark, and is topped with a parapet adorned with urn finials at each corner. The roof is hipped and covered with graduated greenslate, featuring a large square central rendered chimney stack.

The house is square in shape, two stories tall, and has three bays, with lower two-story, single-bay gabled extensions on each face, each gable topped with ball finials. The garden facade includes a four-panel door set in a chamfered surround, topped by a hoodmould and an oval window above in a stone surround, also under a hoodmould. Sash windows with glazing bars are present in stone surrounds, while the side and rear walls and extensions feature three-light cross-mullioned windows under hoodmoulds.

Hesket Hall is built on the site of an earlier house belonging to the Bewley family, which was sold to William Lawson of Isel Hall in 1630. It was rebuilt by his son, who described it as "a curious structure with twelve angles, so contrived that the shadows show the hours of the day." Historical references include Sir Edmund Thomas Bewley's work, "The Bewleys of Cumberland," published in 1902, and Bishop Nicholson's Diary from 1685, which mentions "Sr Wilfrid Lawson's whim at Heskett."