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Petty Hall, Orton
Petty Hall
Orton Old Hall
Orton Hall
locality:-   Orton
civil parish:-   Orton S (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY62240812
1Km square:-   NY6208
10Km square:-   NY60


photograph
BLX81.jpg (taken 21.4.2006)  
photograph
BLX82.jpg  Date stone:-
"GB 1604 MB" (taken 21.4.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 21 16) 
placename:-  Petty Hall
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.

evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
placename:-  Orton Old Hall
source data:-   Photograph, Orton Old Hall - Petty Hall, Orton S, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1894.
image  click to enlarge
HB0053.jpg
Vol.1 no.53 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. 
ms at bottom:-  "53. Orton Old Hall. Orton. E."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.3165.53
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
placename:-  Orton Old Hall
item:-  date stone (1604)
source data:-   Photograph, Orton Old Hall - date stone, Petty Hall, Orton S, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1894.
image  click to enlarge
HB0054.jpg
Vol.1 no.54 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. 
ms at bottom:-  "54. Orton Old Hall. Orton. E."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.3165.54
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old print:- Taylor 1892
placename:-  Orton Old Hall
placename:-  Petty Hall
item:-  date stone (1604); hinge
source data:-   Print, lintel, date stone at Orton Old Hall or Petty Hall, Orton, Westmorland, 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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TY5020.jpg
Inscribed 'GB 1604 MB'. 
On p.133 of The Old Manorial Halls of Cumberland and Westmorland, by Michael Waistell Taylor. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A785.20
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Petty Hall
item:-  date stone (1604); date stone (1689)
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"PETTY HALL / / B6260 / ORTON / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 74089 / NY6221208130"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BARN AND BYRE RANGE ADJOINING NORTH END OF PETTY HALL / / B6260 / ORTON / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74090 / NY6222008131"


photograph
BLX83.jpg (taken 21.4.2006)  

hearsay:-  
Above the fireplace of the cottage part is pseudo coat of arms which incorporates a date stone:-
"89 / 1 6 / P / C M "
for Christopher and Mary Petty, 1689.
The heraldic part has a compasses between three castles.

Palmer 1945

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