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Blencow Hall, Greystoke
Blencow Hall
locality:-   Blencow
civil parish:-   Greystoke (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY45023259
1Km square:-   NY4532
10Km square:-   NY43

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BTQ43.jpg (taken 8.10.2010)  
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BTQ46.jpg (taken 8.10.2010)  
We don't usually comment on places, but we think this deserves a prize for imaginative architecture.
So we werren't surprised to learn later that the project won the RCIS Award 2010 for building conservation.
evidence:-   possibly descriptive text:- Simpson 1746
placename:-  Blencow Magna
source data:-   Atlas, three volumes of maps and descriptive text published as 'The Agreeable Historian, or the Compleat English Traveller ...', by Samuel Simpson, 1746.
image SMP4P197, button  goto source
"... Blencow Magna, Mr. Blencow's. ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Blencow Hall
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
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"Blencow Hall / Blencow Esqr."
house 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library
evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
source data:-   Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
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Page 192:-  "..."
"Below Greystock on the Peterel lies Geat Blencowe, belonging to an antient family of that name, whose ruined tower is still to be seen at Little Blencowe. ..."
evidence:-   old print:- Taylor 1892
placename:-  Blencow Hall
source data:-   Print, halftone photograph, Blencow Hall, Blencow, Greystoke, Cumberland, published for the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, by Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, and by Charles Thurnam and Sons, Carlisle, Cumberland, 1892.
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Tipped in opposite p.288 of The Old Manorial Halls of Cumberland and Westmorland, by Michael Waistell Taylor. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A785.63
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evidence:-   old print:- Taylor 1892
placename:-  Blencow Hall
source data:-   Print, plan of Blencow Hall, Blencow, Greystoke, Cumberland, published for the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, by Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, and by Charles Thurnam and Sons, Carlisle, Cumberland, 1892.
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Tipped in opposite p.290 of The Old Manorial Halls of Cumberland and Westmorland, by Michael Waistell Taylor. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A785.64
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evidence:-   site plan:- Curwen 1913
placename:-  Blencow Hall
source data:-   Site plan, lithograph, Blencow Hall, Blencow. Greystoke, Cumberland, scale about 1 to 270, published for the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society by Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, 1913.
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On p.350 of The Castles and Fortified Towers of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire North of the Sands, by John F Curwen. 
printed at upper middle:-  "BLENCOW HALL / CUMBERLAND"
item:-  Armitt Library : A782.71
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evidence:-   old print:- Curwen 1913
item:-  coat of arms; Blencow Family
item:-  date stone (1590); 1590s; Blencow, Henricus
source data:-   Print, uncoloured lithograph, lintel, coats of arms and date stone, Blencow Hall, Blencow, Greystoke, Cumberland, published for the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society by Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, 1913.
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Blencow Family coat of arms; date stone 'QUORSUM 1590 VIVERE MORI MORI VITAE HENRICUS BLENCOW'. 
On p.440 of The Castles and Fortified Towers of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire North of the Sands, by John F Curwen. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A782.90
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Blencow Hall Farm
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BLENCOW HALL FARMHOUSE AND GATEHOUSE WING / / / GREYSTOKE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / I / 73855 / NY4501832603"
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CHAPEL, NOW BARN, NORTH WEST OF BLENCOW HALL FARMHOUSE / / / GREYSTOKE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73856 / NY4499832620"
evidence:-   old painting:- 
placename:-  Blencowe Hall
source data:-   Painting, watercolour, Blencowe Hall, Greystoke, Cumberland, by Frederick Tucker, 1890s-1900s.
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Fine autumn day; view of Blencowe Hall and its park from between the tall trees on the bank of a shallow river which crosses composition horizontally. 
signed at bottom left:-  "Fred; Tucker"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1936.4.7
Image © Tullie House Museum

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BTQ44.jpg (taken 8.10.2010)  
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BTQ45.jpg (taken 8.10.2010)  
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BLP27.jpg  As it was in 2006.
(taken 4.2.2006)  
hearsay:-  
 The north tower is probably a 16th century pele tower.
notes:-  
 towers, hall, gateway, etc

Perriam, D R &Robinson, J: 1998: Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria: CWAAS:: ISBN 1 873124 23 6; plan and illustration
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