The Gatehouse website record for Cappleside Hall, Beetham

In the civil parish of Beetham. In the historic county of Westmorland (Modern Authority of Cumbria, 1974 county of Cumbria).

The remains of Cappleside Hall medieval lordly residence, surviving as a substantial masonry wall and surrounding earthworks. It is not known when the hall was built. The earliest documentary reference to Cappleside dates to 1336 while the earliest specific reference to the hall occurs in 1691, though it may already have been abandoned by this time. A documentary source dating from the 1760s describes the building as a central hall with two projecting service wings of three storeys. It was largely demolished during C18, but one wing was converted into a barn in 1763. It is a fragment of this structure which survives, measuring up to 1.5m high and 1m thick. Two projecting turrets on the south side are interpreted as the remains of a garderobe chute and a fireplace. (PastScape–ref. scheduling notice)

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SD50088025

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 510347
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is 2493 'grey' literature, such as watching brief reports, held by H.E.R.s is often poorly referenced and is unlikely to be recorded in this website.

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