Godmond Hall, Strickland Roger (The Gatehouse Record)

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as;
Godmund; Goodmond

In the civil parish of Strickland Roger.
In the historic county of Westmorland.
Modern Authority of Cumbria.
1974 county of Cumbria.
Medieval County of Westmorland.

OS Map Grid Reference: SD49979784
Latitude 54.37366° Longitude -2.77172°

Godmond Hall, Strickland Roger has been described as a certain Pele Tower.

There are masonry ruins/remnants remains.

This is a Grade 2 listed building protected by law*.

Description

Godmond Hall, nearly 1 m. N.W. of Burneside Hall, is of two storeys with attics; the walls are of rubble and the roofs are slate-covered. At the E. end of the house are remains of a square pele-tower, probably of mediæval date. The house was added probably late in the 17th century. The tower is of two storeys and is now gabled from N. to S. In the E. wall is a small original light. The N. front of the house is symmetrically designed and retains some late 17th or early 18th-century windows with solid frames. Inside the building is a late 17th-century staircase, with turned balusters and square newels.
Condition—Good. (RCHME 1936)

Sources of information, references and further reading

National Heritage List for England Listed Building number(s) 1086571
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 41695.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) 4051.

Websites (Gatehouse is not responsible for the content of external websites.)
- Matthew Emmott's Castle Blog
  Charles Taylor's ecastles
  Old Cumbria Gazetteer
Books
- Perriam, Denis and Robinson, John, 1998, The Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria (Kendal: CWAAS Extra Series 29) p. 341
  Salter, Mike, 1998, The Castles and Tower Houses of Cumbria (Malvern: Folly Publications) p. 54
  Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge: Boydell Press) p. 274 (slight)
  King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 2 p. 494
  Hugill, Robert, 1977, Castles and Peles of Cumberland and Westmorland (Newcastle; Frank Graham) p. 87-8
  Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1967, Buildings of England: Cumberland and Westmorland (Harmondsworth) p. 237 (slight)
  RCHME, 1936, An inventory of the historical monuments in Westmorland (HMSO) p. 224 no. 2 online transcription
  Curwen, J.F., 1913, Castles and Fortified Towers of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire North of the Sands (Kendal: CWAAS Extra Series 13) p. 370
  Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (London: Methuen and Co)
  Whellan, W., 1860, The History and Topography of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmorland (Pontefract) p. 873 online copy
  1813, The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations topographical, historical and descriptive (London: Longman and co) Vol. 14 p. 209 online copy
  Hodgson, J., 1810, Topographical and Historical Description of Westmoreland p. 209 online copy
Periodical Articles
- Collingwood, W.G., 1926, 'An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments of Westmorland and Lancashire North-of-the-Sands' Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Vol. 26 p. 26 online copy
Other sources: Theses; 'grey' literature; in-house reports; unpublished works; etc.
- Clare, T., 1982, A Report on Medieval Fortified Sites in Cumbria (Cumbria CC)

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