Hardcragg Hall

GRANGE-OVER-SANDS

SD4077 GRANGE FELL ROAD 705-1/4/13 (North side) 11/08/50 Hardcragg Hall (Formerly Listed as: GRANGE FELL ROAD Hardcragg Hall excluding modern conservatory on west end)

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Formerly known as: Hard Crag GRANGE FELL ROAD. House, now hotel and restaurant. C17, extensively restored in a C17 style c1900. Painted roughcast with slate roof. L-plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. The windows have plain reveals, oak mullions, and diamond leaded glazing. The east facade is a 2-window range and has a gabled bay window of 8 lights with transom in the right-hand bay. The other windows are of 4 lights: the left-hand one on the ground floor has a transom. To the left of the bay window there is a rainwater hopper inscribed 'N P 1764'. The chimney on the right-hand gable has rounded shafts. The left-hand (south) gable wall has a 5-light bay window with transom on the ground floor and a 4-light window above. To the left is the 5-window south range. The left-hand window on the ground floor has stepped lights. The other ground-floor windows are of 5 lights, the right-hand one with transom. The 1st-floor windows are of 4 lights except for the 3rd, above the porch, which is a cross-window. The single-storey gabled porch has a sundial in its front wall which appears to be of artificial stone and is dated '1663'. To the right of the porch a lead rainwater pipe has an upper hopper inscribed 'RCL 1734' and a lower hopper inscribed '19 WTM 0-, S - [?]'. Between the 1st and 2nd windows there is a lead hopper inscribed 'C W M 1770'. Chimneys on left-hand gable. INTERIOR: the ground-floor rooms are lined with oak panelling in a C17 style, incorporating C17 woodwork. Above a C19 fireplace at the south end of the east wing is a timber inscribed 'TDM 1666'. Above a spice cupboard door there is the inscribed date '1685'. The entrance hall contains a staircase with splat balusters. HISTORY: the house was bought c1860 by one of the Townley family of Burnley, and WG Marshal Townley was born there in 1869. Beatrix Potter was a friend of the family and it is said that she met the original of Pigling Bland at Hard Cragg. (Swale WE: Grange-Over-Sands: Grange-Over-Sands: 1969-: 59).

Listing NGR: SD4054777942