Dalton Hall is a country house near Burton-in-Kendal in northern England. The hall lies within the county palatine of Lancaster, while Burton lies in the historic county of Westmorland. Both have formed part of Cumbria since 1974.
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The hall has been in the ownership of the Hornby family since the late 18th century. Major additions were made to the large Georgian mansion[2] in 1859–60 by Edmund Geoffrey Stanley Hornby (1839-1923), a Deputy Lieutenant for Lancashire,[3] son and heir of Edmund Hornby (1773-1857), MP, to the designs of the Lancaster architect Edward Graham Paley. The building was demolished in 1968 and replaced in 1968–72 by a much smaller new house designed by Clough Williams-Ellis, his last commission.[2][4] Pevsner described it as "a stately doll's house" which "sits inside the ghost of its predecessor".[4] The outbuildings have been converted to serve a number of commercial purposes, including rental cottages, a self-storage facility, and the Dalton Hall Business Centre.[5][6]
Estate
editIn 2018 the Dalton Estate included three farms:[7]
- Coat Green Farm – a tenanted mixed dairy farm.
- Dalton Old Hall – a tenanted mixed beef and sheep farm.
- Russell Farm – a tenanted farm.
In addition the estate owns the following 18 dwellings:[8]
- Bell House – 4 bedroom detached house
- Crow Trees – 3 bedroom detached cottage
- Burton Lodge – 2 bedroom gate lodge
- Dalton Lodge – 2 bedroom gate lodge
- 3 Forestry Houses – 3 bedroom 1950's semi-detached
- 4 Forestry Houses – 3 bedroom 1950's semi-detached
- Home Farm – 3 bedroom house – AVAILABLE TO LET
- Keeper's Cottage – 3 bedroom detached cottage c/w barn
- 1 Park View 3 bedroom attached cottage
- 2 Park View – 4 bedroom attached cottage
- 1 Woodside Cottages – 3 bedroom 1960's semi-detached
- 2 Woodside Cottages – 3 bedroom 1960's semi-detached
- Old Post Office Flat, Kirkby Stephen – 2 bedroom apartment
Hornby family
editprominent members of the Hornby family include:
- Edmund Hornby (1773-1857), MP, whose mother was a daughter of James Smith-Stanley, Lord Strange (1716–1771), (son and heir apparent of Edward Stanley, 11th Earl of Derby (1689-1776) of Knowsley Hall in Lancashire) and a sister of Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby (1752-1834). He himself married his first cousin Lady Charlotte Stanley (d.1805), a daughter of the 12th Earl of Derby. Edmund Hornby's nephew was thus Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799-1869), thrice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1852, 1858–9, 1866-8).
- Admiral Sir Phipps Hornby (1785-1867), younger brother of Edmund Hornby (1773-1857).
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p.1156
- ^ a b History, Dalton Hall Business Centre, retrieved 9 June 2011
- ^ BLG, 1937, p.1156
- ^ a b Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2010) [1967], Cumbria, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, pp. 209–210, ISBN 978-0-300-12663-1
- ^ Estate Properties, Dalton Hall Business Centre, retrieved 9 June 2011
- ^ Business Centre, Dalton Hall Business Centre, retrieved 9 June 2011
- ^ "Farms".
- ^ "Cottages".
External links
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