Islekirk Hall

House. Dating to the mid-16th century, with later alterations in the late 17th and 19th centuries. The house is constructed of red sandstone rubble with dressed stone on a chamfered plinth. It has a graduated greenslate roof with stone chimney stacks, and a later extension of coursed red sandstone rubble under a Welsh slate roof with brick chimney stacks. The main block is two storeys high and seven bays wide, with a lower two-bay extension to the left. There are two top-glazed panelled doors set in 19th-century painted stone surrounds. Sash windows are present; those on both floors in the three leftmost bays are in painted architraves with cross-mullions removed, while those to the right are in painted stone surrounds. Two upper-floor painted false windows are also visible. An end wall to the left features a three-light stone-mullioned window with round-headed lights, partially obscured by the extension. The extension includes a plank door in an alternate-block stone surround, and sash windows with glazing bars in painted stone surrounds. The rear wall of the house originally served as the front elevation. A plank door in a 19th-century stone surround obstructs a former window or doorway, above which three lights remain, partly blocked. Other windows are double-chamfered with round-headed lights; two are blocked, and the windows on the extreme left have had their mullions removed, with the upper-floor window enlarged. Projecting two-storey and single-storey outshuts cover the remainder of the facade and are not of particular interest. Two stones with diamond broaching indicate that the stones originated from the Roman fort at Old Carlisle. The site incorporates the location of the Hermitage of St Hilda. The house was tenanted by the Barwis family as early as 1529 and was granted to them in 1544, remaining in their family until 1708.