Ingmire Hall And Stables And Outbuildings To North Known As Ingmire Cottage

Ingmire Hall is a house with stables and outbuildings, dating in part to the 16th century, possibly with earlier elements. It was altered and significantly enlarged in the early 19th century by George Webster of Kendal, extended around 1900, severely damaged by fire in the 1920s, and then further extended and partially remodelled in 1989. The building is constructed of coursed rubble with quoins and has slate roofs.

The original building appears to have comprised a pele tower (at the north end), a hall range and a crosswing (at the south end). The pele tower is now internally ruinous, containing a tall, three-stage cylindrical stair-turret at the northwest corner with slit windows and a high, corbelled-out parapet featuring stepped crenellation. The pele tower has a slit window at ground floor, a three-light mullioned window with a hoodmould at first floor, and a corbelled diagonal southwest corner. Two chamfered doorways of different heights and arch profiles are present on the north side. A crenellated curtain wall, built by Webster, connects the pele tower and crosswing, enhancing the building's “medieval aspect.” This curtain wall is symmetrical and includes a large, canted corbelled turret rising from a canted pier with buttresses flanking one- and two-light windows. The crosswing, now the main house, is an irregular two-window range with central and angle buttresses, cross-windows, a three-light mullioned window in the gable and a mock turret at the northwest corner. Attached to the southwest corner is a buttressed, gabled porch, rebuilt and extended to the rear, featuring an arched doorway and obelisk-and-ball finials. A ridge chimney has clustered diagonal shafts. The south side of the wing has an irregular arrangement of coupled and single-light sash windows, and gablets with similar finials. Late 20th-century alterations have been made to the rear.

The interior of the crosswing is said to contain early fabric, although significantly altered by Webster.

To the north, set back behind a courtyard, is a stable block and cottage arranged in an L-plan. It has also been “medievalized” by Webster, including a prominent “gatehouse” with wide bay, octagonal corner turrets, a wide four-centred arch, and a three-light mullioned window above. Lower side ranges incorporate earlier fabric but are much altered, and a single-storey, three-bay arcaded cart-shed is attached at the north end.

The building forms a group with a nearby group of farm buildings approximately 100m to the west, and with Ingmire Gardens to the northeast.