Hutton, New

43 HUTTON, NEW (D.f.)

(O.S. 6 in. ^(a)XXXIX, N.W., ^(b)XXXIX, S.W.)

New Hutton is a parish adjoining that of Kendal on the E. The church is modern and Strawberry Bank is the principal monument.

Secular

^b(1). Strawberry Bank, house, 590 yards S.W. of the church, is of two storeys with attics; the walls are of rubble and the roofs are slate-covered. It was built probably late in the 16th or early in the 17th century on an L-shaped plan. An addition was made in the angle between the wings, probably early in the 18th century. The E. front has a three-storeyed porch and the 17th-century front door is nail-studded and panelled. Inside the building are some moulded ceiling-beams and some early 18th-century panelling. In the N. room, over the fireplace, is an elaborate 17th-century plaster panel (Plate 51) with a repeating design of vine-scrolls and a band of running foliage above and below it; it is fitted to the segmental head of a larger fireplace-opening. The kitchen has an early 18th-century stone fireplace with a corbelled head.

Condition—Fairly good.

Monuments (2–19)

The following monuments, unless otherwise described, are of the 17th century and of two storeys; the walls are of rubble and the roofs are slate-covered. Some of the buildings have exposed ceiling-beams.

Condition—Good or fairly good, unless noted.

^b(2). Great Hawkrigg End, house, 530 yards W. of the church, was built late in the 17th or early in the 18th century and contains a corbelled fireplace of that date.

^b(3). Moss Head, house, 650 yards S.S.W. of the church, contains an original panelled partition and an early 18th-century corbelled fireplace.

^b(4). The Ashes, house, 270 yards S.S.W. of the church, has been extensively altered.

^b(5). Dubside, house, 230 yards S.W. of the church, contains some original panelling and doors.

^b(6). House, 35 yards N.W. of the church, was built c. 1700 and extended to the S.W. at a later date.

^b(7). House, 20 yards N.E. of (6), was built probably early in the 18th century and contains a spice-cupboard with the initials and date T.W.E. 1709.

^b(8). House, 20 yards N.E. of (7), was built c. 1700 and has a later outbuilding on the S. The original front door has an old latch. Inside the building are a corbelled fireplace of the local type and two spicecupboards.

^a(9). High Butterbent, house, nearly ¾ m. W.N.W. of the church, has 18th-century and modern additions. The original front doorway of stone has moulded jambs with the moulding carried across the lintel in embattled form. Inside the building is a cupboard of the local type with enriched upper panels, pendants and fascia with the initials and date W.C.B. 1680. There are also two panelled doors of the same period.

^a(10). Low Butterbent, house, 110 yards N.W. of (9).

^b(11). Hagg, house, 1,420 yards W. of the church, was built c. 1700. It contains an early 18th-century staircase with turned balusters.

^b(12). Hollins, cottage, about 1½ m. W.S.W. of the church, was built probably early in the 18th century.

^b(13). Hayclose, house, 200 yards S.W. of (12), has a late 16th or early 17th-century E. wing; the rest of the house was added later in the 17th century and a stone with the initials and date I. and K.F. 1713 in the N. wall probably refers to some later alteration. In the same wall is a 17th-century window of seven lights with solid frame and mullions. Inside the building is an early 18th-century panelled cupboard.

^a(14). Crag Farm, house, 1½ m. N. of the church, has later additions at both ends. Inside the building is a cupboard of the local type and facing both ways; the upper panels are enriched and both faces bear the initials and date M.T. 1661.

^a(15). Low House, 530 yards E. of (14), was built c. 1700 and contains a corbelled fireplace of the local type.

^a(16). Ginshop, house, 1,000 yards N. of the church.

^a(17). Green Bank, house, 1,030 yards E.N.E. of the church, contains an enriched spice-cupboard with the initials and date R. and I.B. 1671 and an early 18th-century corbelled fireplace. There is also an original two-stage cupboard with pendants and fascia, with the initials and date M.T. 1674.

^b(18). Crake Hall, 1,050 yards E. of the church, contains a cupboard dated 1714 and an early 18th-century fireplace with a corbelled head, a leaf or shell-ornament in the middle of the head and a moulded cornice.

^b(19). Hall Bank, house, ¼ m. S.E. of (18), was altered early in the 18th century. It contains a corbelled fireplace of this date and a spice-cupboard with the initials and date T.W. 1714.

Condition—Poor.