Chatsworth House

Chatsworth House is a vicarage built in 1870 by Habershon and Brock for St. Paul's Church, and now a private house. The building is constructed of red brick on a chamfered plinth, with calciferous sandstone dressings, sill bands, and a cornice band. It has a steeply pitched Welsh slate roof with lead detailing on a hipped bay window and shaped bargeboard gables, along with original brick chimney stacks. The house is two storeys high and has three bays, arranged in a double-depth plan with a cross-wing to the right, forming an overall L-shape. A central glazed door with overlight is set within a round-arched brick porch, featuring flush quoins and a hipped slate roof. Flanking the entrance are two-storey canted bay windows; the left one projects above the eaves, and the right one is of similar height within the cross-wing gable, both with slate roofs. The windows are sash windows with stone surrounds, decorative carved lintels, and dentilled cornices. Sash windows above the entrance are partly obscured by the porch roof, which has a chamfered stone surround. Smaller attic windows are situated above the right bay. The interior remains uninspected. Original drawings relating to the building are held at Cumbria County Record Office (Ca/E4/144). St Paul’s Church closed in 1976, was declared redundant in 1978, and the house was subsequently sold.