Alstonby Hall

Alstonby Hall is a house, originally built as a shooting lodge in the early 19th century, with an extension added in the mid-19th century, likely designed by William Burn for the Grahams of Netherby. The original lodge is a single-story, four-bay structure built of calciferous sandstone ashlar. It features a chamfered plinth, a graduated slate roof with lead hips and projecting eaves, and clusters of octagonal stone chimney stacks. The extension is two-story and two bays, constructed of red sandstone ashlar with a string course and moulded cornice, and has a slate roof with 20th-century tile repairs and octagonal chimney stacks. The lodge’s recessed and stepped Ionic tetrastyle loggia has a central pointed entrance arch with a hood mould, an oak plank door with a fanlight featuring intersecting glazing bars, and flanking pointed casements with glazing bars. Flanking projecting bays have hipped roofs, three-light round-headed mullions with glazing bars, and square hood moulds. The extension is double span with projecting and recessed gables. A projecting porch of red sandstone features a pointed head and hood mould. The windows in the extension are of similar detail to the lodge but without the glazing bars. A projecting polygonal bay window on the east front has angle buttresses that rise as finials. The interior of the extension features oak-panelled doors, ceilings with moulded and decorated cornices, and oak shutters. One principal room has a rib vaulted plaster ceiling, a cast iron fireplace with radial heating bars, and a moulded black marble mantelpiece.