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Great Ormside Hall, Great Ormside
Great Ormside Hall
Ormside Hall
locality:-   Great Ormside
civil parish:-   Ormside (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY70191759
1Km square:-   NY7017
10Km square:-   NY71


photograph
BUT19.jpg (taken 17.6.2011)  
photograph
BUT18.jpg  Notice the topiary.
(taken 17.6.2011)  

evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
placename:-  Ormside Hall
item:-  gate piers
source data:-   Photograph, Ormside Hall, Great Ormside, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1894.
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HB0051.jpg
Vol.1 no.51 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. 
ms at bottom:-  "51. Ormside Hall. Ormside. E."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.3165.51
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
placename:-  Ormside Hall
source data:-   Photograph, Ormside Hall, The Tower, Great Ormside, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1894.
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HB0052.jpg
Vol.1 no.52 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. 
ms at bottom:-  "52. Ormside Hall, The Tower. Ormside. E."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.3165.52
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evidence:-   site plan:- Curwen 1913
placename:-  Ormside Hall
source data:-   Site plan, lithograh, Ormside Hall, Great Ormside, Ormside, Westmorland, published for the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society by Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, 1913.
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CW0161.jpg
On p.311 of The Castles and Fortified Towers of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire North of the Sands, by John F Curwen. 
printed at bottom:-  "Ormside Hall:"
item:-  Armitt Library : A782.61
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evidence:-   site plan:- Historical Monuments 1936
placename:-  Ormside Hall
source data:-   Site plan, uncoloured lithograph, Ormside Hall, Great Ormside, Ormside, Westmorland, scale about 1 to 290, published by Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, London, 1936.
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HMW113.jpg
On p.187 of the Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland. 
printed, top  "ORMSIDE HALL"
RCHME no. Wmd, Ormside 3 
item:-  Armitt Library : A745.114
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Ormside Hall
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"ORMSIDE HALL AND ADJOINING BARNS / / / ORMSIDE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 73272 / NY7019217594"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"GATEPIERS TO NORTH WEST OF ORMSIDE HALL / / / ORMSIDE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73274 / NY7016417606"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"THRESHING BARN TO WEST OF ORMSIDE HALL / / / ORMSIDE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73273 / NY7016017593"


photograph
BUT20.jpg (taken 17.6.2011)  
photograph
BNT46.jpg (taken 31.5.2007)  
photograph
CCA53.jpg (taken 7.11.2014)  

notes:-  
14th century tower 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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