Wetheral Priory was in the parish, but all that remains of it is its gatehouse and a length of wall; both are listed buildings and scheduled monuments. Another important building in the parish is Corby Castle, initially a tower house and later expanded; this and associated structures are listed. Most of the other listed buildings are country houses and smaller houses with associated structures, farmhouses and farm buildings. In addition, the listed buildings include churches and associated structures, medieval cave dwellings, former water mills, public houses, a milestone, bridges and viaducts, railway stations and associated buildings, war memorials, and a school.
Three cave dwellings used in the 14th century by the Priory of Wetheral, in the cliff face above the River Eden. They have been cut out of the rock, and measure 20 feet (6.1 m) by 9 feet (2.7 m) by 9 feet (2.7 m). The cells have a front wall in masonry, with three windows, and inside are a fireplace. The cells are also a scheduled monument.[2][3][4]
The structure was built to provide salmon for Wetheral Priory. It is in sandstone, and consists of three splayed piers and two abutments built into the bed and the bank of River Eden, over which is a catwalk. Between the piers and abutments are pans and sluices to catch the salmon. On the bank is a wooden crane.[5][6]
Alterations and additions were made in 1869 and in 1908. The church is in sandstone and has a slate roof with decorative ridge tiles and copedgables. It consists of a nave with a west porch, and a chancel with a semicircular apse and a north vestry. On the west gable is a corbelledbellcote, and the windows are lancets. Around the apse is blind arcading. Inside the church is the former Norman tower arch.[7][8]
The church has since been altered and extended, including the addition of a tower in 1790, and a restoration in 1882. It is built in sandstone, and has slate roofs with a coped east gable. The church consists of a nave with a clerestory, a vestry, and a south porch, a chancel with a north chapel, and a west tower. At the east end of the nave is a bellcote. The tower is hexagonal, and has a half-octagonal stair tower and a battlementedparapet.[9][10]
A country house that originated as a tower house. A wing was added in the 17th century, giving it an L-shaped plan, and the angle was filled in with a Neoclassical building between 1812 and 1817. The house is in sandstone with a slate roof and has three storeys. The south front has five bays and contains a tetrastyleGreek Doric porch flanked by an arcadedloggia. Above this is a three-light window with pilasters, and in the top floor is a Diocletian window. The west front has seven bays, and contains an open Greek Doric loggia. On both fronts is a cornice surmounted by a heraldic lion.[11][12]
The wall is the only remaining part of the priory above the ground, possibly the east wall of the chapter house. It is in sandstone on a chamferedplinth, and has moulded dressings. The wall is about 25 metres (82 ft) long, possibly originally of two storeys, now up to the top of the ground floor windows. It contains two lancet windows and a two-light mullioned window. The wall is also a scheduled monument.[2][15][16]
Originally a bastle house, later extended and used as a farmhouse. It is built with thick walls in large blocks of sandstone, rendered at the front, and with a green slate roof. There are two storeys and four bays, with a single-storey extension to the west. Some of the original windows have been filled in, and the current windows and doors date from the 20th century.[17][18]
The structure consists of the former east window of Arthuret Church, erected in the grounds of the house in 1868. It has a brick base, sandstonebuttresses, and a freestone surround and tracery. There are six lights with segmental arches, a central mullion, intersecting tracery, and an oval at the apex.[19][20]
The tomb is in the churchyard of Wetheral Church. It is a chest tomb on a sandstoneplinth with a shaped slab of yellow sandstone inscribed with the names of members of the Howard family of Corby Castle.[21]
Originating as estate cottages for Corby Castle, and incorporating earlier material, they were later converted into a farmhouse with barns and hay lofts to the right. The building has thick sandstone walls, a slate roof, and two storeys. The original windows were small, mullioned, and with chamfered surrounds, and these have been filled and replaced with 19th-century windows and doors.[22]
The west wall, facing the road, is in sandstone, and the east wall is a mixture of clay, sandstone and straw, on sandstone footings, and the roof is slated. The house has 1+1⁄2 storeys and four bays. The west wall contains blocked mullioned windows and 20th-century attic windows, and east wall has a 20th-century doorway and windows.[23]
The dovecote is in the grounds of Corby Castle, and is probably a rebuild of an earlier dovecote. It is in sandstone, it has a portico at the front and a square dovecote behind. The portico has a short flight of steps, four Ionic columns, an inscribed frieze, a balustraded balcony, and a pediment surmounted by a carved lion. There are niches at the back of the portico. The entrance to the dovecote is at the rear, and inside is a rotating ladder.[5][25]
A sandstone cottage that possibly originated as two cottages, it has a slate roof, and is in a single storey with two bays. The cottages has a plank door, a filled entrance, and horizontally sliding sash windows.[26]
A sandstone cottage with 1+1⁄2 storeys, two bays, and an extension to the left. The ground floor windows are horizontally sliding sashes, and above are gableddormers.[27]
The cascade and summer house are in the grounds of Corby Castle, and are in sandstone. The summer house is in Venetian style, and has a portico with niches containing statues, and more statues inside. In the centre of the portico is a water spout consisting of a dragon's head flanked by three-headed animals. The water falls over arched steps, one with a grotto behind, about 10 metres (33 ft) to a semicircular basin, in the centre of which is a statue of Nelson, and then by more steps into the river.[28][29]
The Friends' meeting house closed in 1913. It is in brick on a sandstoneplinth, with sandstone dressings and a stone-slate roof. The building has one storey and three bays. The doorway and windows have plain surrounds.[19][30]
Originally a farmhouse, later a private house, it is rendered and has a slate roof. There are two storeys and five bays. Above the original entrance is a dated and initialled lintel. There is a small fire window with a chamfered and moulded surround; the other windows are sashes with plain surrounds.[31]
The statue of the Greek mythological character Polyphemus is in the grounds of Corby Castle. It is in sandstone, about 4 metres (13 ft) high, and depicts the figure holding a staff in one hand and reed-pipes in the other.[5][32]
A folly in the grounds of Corby Castle in the form of a Tuscan temple. It is in stuccoed stone with a slate roof. Steps with piers surmounted by carved balls lead up to a portico with four Tuscan columns and a mouldedentablature. The pediment contains carved figures. The entrance has a moulded surround, an entablature and a dentilled pediment. Inside the building is a single room with painted walls.[5][33]
The cottage has been extensively altered. It is in sandstone with a stone-slate roof, in two storeys and three bays. On the front is a gabled porch, and the windows are 20th-century casements.[34]
The house was altered and extended in the 19th century. It is roughcast with stone dressings, and has a slate roof with a copedgable on the right. There are two storeys and two bays, with a single-bay extension to the left. On the front is a porch, and the doorway and sash windows have plain surrounds.[35]
A sandstone cottage with a tiled roof, in a single storey and with four bays. On the front is a projecting porch with a pointed arch, casement windows in plain surrounds, and a 20th-century bow window.[36]
This probably originated as an estate cottage, it was used as a Roman Catholic church in the early 19th century, and was converted back to a house in about 1842. The cottage is roughcast and has an asbestos sheet roof with copedgables. It has one storey and five bays. The doorway has an alternate block surround, and the windows have plain surrounds. The windows in the east gable end have hood moulds, over which is a coat of arms, and the bargeboards are decorated and inscribed.[37]
A sandstone cottage with a stone-slate roof. There are two storeys and two bays, with a recessed single bay extension to the left. There are two doorways with plain surrounds, one with a dated lintel. The windows are 20th-century casements.[40]
Originally a farmhouse with an attached barn, in sandstone with slate roofs. There are three bays, a doorway with a chamfered surround and an initialled and dated lintel, and horizontally sliding sash windows. There are external wooden steps to a first floor door.[41]
The farmhouse is in brick with sandstone dressings, chamferedquoins, a plain cornice, and a Welsh slate roof. It has two storeys, a symmetrical five-bay front, and a lean-to on the right. The central doorway has a moulded surround and a pulvinated frieze, and the windows, most of which are sashes, have plain surrounds. Above the rear door is an inscribed plaque. The farm buildings are in brick and sandstone with green slate roofs and, with the house, form three sides of the farmyard; these include a stable range, a threshing barn, and a granary.[42]
The sundial is in the churchyard of the Church of the Holy Trinity and St Constantine. It is in sandstone, and consists of a polygonal column on a carved stepped medieval cross socket. On the top is a brass dial inscribed with Roman numerals.[43]
A pair of houses, originally with one storey, and a second storey added in the 19th century. They are rendered with sandstone in the ground floor and brick above, and with a slate roof. Each house has two bays, and a gableddormer with bargeboards in the outer bays. The doorway and sash windows have plain surrounds.[44]
Originally a farmhouse, later a private house, it is rendered with angle pilaster strips and a slate roof. There are two storeys and three bays, and lower two-storey one-bay wings on each side. The door has a round-arched head with a keystone, and a fanlight. The windows are sashes with plain surrounds, and in the left wing are garage doors.[45]
Additions were made to the house in the 19th century. It is roughcast with stone dressings and a slate roof. There are two storeys and four bays, and with a two-storey three-bay extension to the right. The doorway has mouldedpilasters, and a moulded and ornamented entablature and pediment, and the windows are sashes.[46]
The gate piers and walls are in sandstone. The shafts of the piers consist of alternate large and small blocks, and on them is a mouldedcornice surmounted by moulded balls. The walls have plain coping and 19th-century iron railings.[47]
Originally a cotton water mill, it was gutted by fire in 1793, and rebuilt. It is in sandstone and has a slate roof. The original part has three storeys with an attic and nine bays. In 1814 a further block was added, in four storeys with an attic and eleven bays, and it was changed to steam power in 1822. The mill ceased production in the 1970s and has since been converted to separate units. At the west end of the original building is a wooden bellcote with a weathervane.[52][53]
Originally two houses, it became an inn in about 1838, and was altered, including the addition of a storey, in about 1930 by Harry Redfern. The hotel is rendered with moulded stone dressings, quoins, and a slate roof. There are three storeys and seven bays, with a moulded cornice between the middle and the top floor, and another above the top floor. The entrance has two Roman Ionic columns and a dentilledentablature. The windows are sashes with moulded surrounds.[2][54]
The walls of the kitchen garden are in brick, and incorporate decorative arches. In the west wall is a sandstone entrance flanked by round-headed stuccoedniches with voussoirs and keystones. Above them is a cornice surmounted by a large re-sited carved coat of arms.[5][56]
A house, originally a lodge to Corby Castle, in sandstone with a slate roof. It has a porch with a segmental plan, Tuscan columns, and a moulded and dentilledcornice that is carried round the rest of the building. There is an L-shaped extension to the right containing a small sash window.[57]
The oldest parts are the steps, the rest of the cross dating from about 1844. The structure originated as a maypole on a different site. It is in sandstone and 3.5 metres (11 ft) high. There are two square steps, a chamferedplinth with a socket, and a square chamfered tapering shaft with a head carved to form a cross.[58]
A row of six houses, originally twelve back-to-back houses. They are in sandstone with surrounds of stuccoed brick and a hippedslate roof. There are two storeys, and each house has two bays. The doors and casement windows are 20th-century replacements. No. 1 has a cellar with steps leading down to it.[59]
A terrace of five houses, originally workers' cottages, in sandstone with quoins and slate roofs. They have two storeys, and each house has two bays, other than No. 12, which has three bays and a cellar. The doorways and windows have plain surrounds, and between Nos. 11 and 12 is a round-headed cart entrance. Steps lead up to the door of No. 12, which has sash windows. The windows of the other houses are 19th-century casements.[60]
The lodge is in sandstone with a slate roof, and has two storeys and three bays. In front is a portico with four Tuscan columns, and a dentilledpediment. In the pediment is a circular panel carved with a depiction of Apollo and his chariot. The central doorway has a round arch and a patterned fanlight, and the windows are sashes with plain surrounds.[5][61]
A sandstone house with a slate roof, in two storeys and four bays. The left three bays are stuccoed and have a porch with a tented lead hood, and to the right is a bay window, also with a tented hood. The right bay projects, it is taller with a segmental plan, and it contains curved windows. All the windows are sashes in plain surrounds.[62]
A pair of rendered houses with stone dressings and a slate roof, both in two storeys. Myrtle Cottage has three bays, a round-headed doorway with a moulded surround, a false keystone, and a radial fanlight. Holly Cottage has one bay, and an entrance with a plain surround. Both cottages have sash windows.[66]
A terrace of three stuccoed houses with stone dressings and a slate roof. There are two storeys, and each house has three bays. In the centre of each house is a doorway flanked by Greek Doric columns, above the doors are fanlights, and the windows are sashes with plain surrounds.[2][68]
A public house in sandstone with quoins and a slate roof. There are two storeys and three bays. The doorway and sash windows have plain surrounds, and above the door is a cornice on console brackets. To the left and projecting forward is a two-storey two-bay extension with similar features, and it is joined to the main part by a 20th-century glazed porch.[69]
The house is stuccoed, with rusticatedquoins and a slate roof. There are two storeys and two bays, and a two-bay extension to the right. The doorway and the windows, which are sashes, have plain surrounds, and in the extension are garage doors.[71]
Originally a Sunday School, it was a Methodist chapel by 1847, and later used as a workshop. The building is in sandstone with brick-arched windows, angle pilasters, and a slate roof. There are two storeys and the central part is flanked by single-storey two-bay cottages. The entrance front is pedimented, the doorway has a moulded surround, and a cornice on ornamental console brackets, and above it is an oculus. The cottages have pedimented gables and sash windows.[74][75]
The stables have since been used for other purposes. They are in sandstone with a slate roof, and have two storeys and ten bays. In the centre is a large round-headed entrance arch, above which is a circular opening and a pedimentedgable. The outer bays are gabled and project forward, they contain round-headed arches and in the upper floor are string courses and quoins. The windows are sashes with plain surrounds.[76][77]
The milestone was provided for the Carlisle to Bramptonturnpike. It is in sandstone, and consists of a squared stone with a pyramidal top set at an angle to the road. On each face is a cast iron plate inscribed with the distances in miles to Carlisle and to Brampton. On the top of the milestone is a bench mark and a metal stud.[78]
Also known as the Wetheral Viaduct, it was built by the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway Company to carry the railway over the River Eden. It is in sandstone, and consists of five wide semicircular arches each spanning 27 metres (89 ft). The viaduct has channelled rustication, voussoirs, and a parapet 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in) high. It has a total height of 33 metres (108 ft) and is 280 metres (920 ft) long. A cast iron footbridge was added in 1851.[2][79]
The viaduct was built by the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway Company to carry the railway over the Corby Beck. It is in sandstone, and consists of seven arches each spanning 13 metres (43 ft). The viaduct has channelled rustication, voussoirs, and a parapet. It has a height of 23 metres (75 ft) and is 160 metres (520 ft) long.[80]
Originating as a blacksmith's shop, later a workshop, with a porch for shoeing horses at the front. It is in sandstone with a slate roof, a single storey with an attic, and one bay. At the front is a large round moulded arch on short columns with capitals. Above the arch is a carved panel, a moulded cornice, and a blocking course. To the sides of the porch are decorative buttresses and short walls ending in moulded piers with stone benches.[5][81]
Originally a country house designed by John Dobson, it became an abbey in 19221, and was divided into apartments in the 2000s. The house is in sandstone with moulded dressings, a slate roof, and castellated chimneys and parapets. It has two storeys and three three-storey towers. The towers are joined by bays to surround a courtyard. The entrance tower incorporates a porch with a Gothic doorway, a hood mould, a stained glass window, and a coat of arms. The windows are mixed, some are mullioned and transomed, some are sashes, and others are casements.[84][85]
Originally the lodge for Rose Hill, later a private house, it is in sandstone with a slate roof. There is one storey and three bays. In the centre of the front is a projecting gabled porch on four square columns with mouldedcapitals. The windows are sashes with plain surrounds. On the right side is a cantedbay window.[88]
The house and stable are in sandstone with a slate roof. The house has two storeys and three bays, and has a round-headed doorway with a quoined surround, and a hood mould. The stable to the left has two bays, and contains two round-headed entrances. The windows are sashes.[89]
Originally a house named Rose Hill, later used as a nursing home, it is built in stone from Cumwhinton quarry on a chamferedplinth, and has a mouldedeavescornice and a hippedslate roof. The house has two storeys, the central part has three bays, and there are semi-octagonal bays projecting diagonally from the corners. On the front is a curved tetrastyleRoman Doric porch with an ornamental frieze and a cast iron balcony. Above the doorway is a patterned round-headed fanlight with a keystone. The windows are sashes with plain surrounds.[19][92]
The ticket office, clerk's office, waiting rooms, station master's house, and platform were built for the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway. A platform canopy was built in 1861, part of which remains. In the 1880s additions, including rebuilding and adding an upper storey to the station master's house, were made for the North Eastern Railway. The other buildings have one storey, and all are in Tudor style, in calciferous sandstone, and with slate roofs. The buildings were later used as a private house.[2][93]
The gate piers and walls are in sandstone. The piers are about 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) high, in Tudor style, and consist of octagonal columns with moulded octagonal castellated heads. The flanking screen walls are about 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in) high and have moulded coping.[94]
A water mill in sandstone with a hippedslate roof. There are 2+1⁄2 storeys and a central block of two bays, a three-bay extension to the south, and an extension to the east. The doorways and the sash windows have plain surrounds, and on the ridge is a weathervane incorporating a lion. The southern extension contains a dovecote with multiple openings, and a cart entrance. Inside the mill is an undershot water wheel, and at the entrance is an internal loading platform.[52][96]
A pair of sandstone houses with quoins and a slate roof, in two storeys. Milford has three bays, and Grove Cottage has two. The doorways and sash windows have plain surrounds. Above the doorway of Milford is a cornice on console brackets. and above the entrance to Grove Cottage is a pair of carved dogs.[97]
A presbytery and attached stable block serving the Church of St Mary and St Wilfred designed by A. W. N. Pugin in Victorian Gothic style. It is in sandstone with a hippedslate roof. There are two storeys and an essentially square plan, with sides of two and three bays. On the entrance is a gabled porch with a pointed entrance, and the windows have pointed heads. To the east is a service wing and a stable block that has been converted into a parish room.[76][100]
The piers and walls are in sandstone. There are two pairs of piers, each pair joined by a curved wall. The piers are square, each has decorative console brackets, a mouldedcornice, and a carved Grecian vase. The walls then extend on each side for about 50 metres (160 ft), and have a chamferedplinth and a moulded coping. At the ends of the walls are piers with a dated panel, a coat of arms and initials.[102]
The monument is in the churchyard of Wetheral Parish Church. It is in sandstone, 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) high, and in Grecian style. The monument consists of a squared column with inscribed panels standing on a chamfered base, and it has a cornice carrying an ornate carved vase.[103]
Built as a schoolmaster's house, it is in sandstone with a slate roof. There are two storeys and three bays. It has a projecting porch with a Tudor arched entrance, above which is a hood mould and a tablet containing a coat of arms. The windows are sashes with chamferedmullions and surrounds, the upper floor windows in gabled dormers.[104]
The school was extended in 1882, and is in sandstone with slate roofs. The original part has two storeys and three bays. It has a projecting two-storey porch, with a Tudor arched entrance, a corbelled out upper storey containing a lancet window, and crow-stepped gable. The later part has one storey, and four bays separated by buttresses, decorative ridge tiles, and a wooden bellcote. The windows in both parts are sashes.[105]
A model farm, adjacent to Wetheral Priory Gatehouse, incorporating material from the medievalpriory. The farmhouse and farm buildings are in red sandstone with roofs in Westmorland and Welsh slate. The farmhouse has two storeys and a cellar, and has a T-shaped plan with an additional east range. The farm buildings have two storeys and consist of rectangular ranges around three sides of a yard. Attached to the farmhouse are garden walls containing cast iron gates.[109]
A large brick house in Victorian Gothic style, with stone quoins and carvings, and a slate roof. It has two storeys and an attic, and consists of a main block, two wings at the rear and a dormitory block, and a three-storey tower with a metal finial. The entrance has a segmental arch, and it is flanked by bay windows, one canted, the other rectangular. Features include windows of various types, gables with decorated bargeboards, and bracketed eaves.[2][110]
A disused railway station built for the Settle-Carlisle Line of the Midland Railway. It is in sandstone with slate roofs, and has one storey. In the centre is the booking office, flanked by gables, with gabled bays outside these. The windows are sashes, and all the gables have elaborate pierced bargeboards. There is a small shelter to the north.[112]
The bridge carries the B6263 road over the Settle-Carlisle Line of the former Midland Railway. It is in sandstone with brick soffits to the arch. The bridge consists of a single arch with a band at road level, and cambered wing walls on the sides.[113]
The house with a slate roof, and has an L-shaped plan, two storeys and two bays. There are gabled projections on both fronts, a gabled porch, and a gabled dormer; all the gables have pierced bargeboards. The windows are casements.[115]
The footbridge was built for the North Eastern Railway, and is in cast iron with a wooden walkway. Approaching on both sides are L-shaped flights of steps leading to an arched walkway. The bridge is carried on four cast iron columns, and it has a latticedbalustrade.[2][116]
The war memorial is in the churchyard of St Paul's Church. It is in grey granite, and consists of a Celtic cross on a bowed shaft on a rough hewn base. The head of the cross has interlace ornament, and there is a carved wreath at the base. On the shaft are inscriptions and the names of those lost in the two World Wars.[117]
The war memorial is in the churchyard of St John's Church, Cotehill, against the west wall of the church. It is in grey granite, and consists of a Latin cross on a tapering shaft, a four-sided plinth, and a single-stepped base. On the front of the cross is inscribed "PEACE", and on the plinth are inscriptions and the names of those lost in the two World Wars.[118]
The memorial is in the churchyard of All Saints Church, Scotby, and is in red sandstone. It consists of a tall Latin cross with an octagonal shaft on an octagonal plinth standing on three octagonal steps. On the plinth is an inscription and the names of those lost in the two World Wars.[119]
The war memorial stands in a semicircular enclosure by the roadside. It is in polished Aberdeengranite, and consists of an infilled wheel-head cross with a tapering shaft. This is on a tapering plinth and is surrounded by a cairn of roughhewn stones. The head of the cross has carved bosses, and the lower part of the shaft and the plinth carry inscriptions and the names of those lost in the two World Wars.[120]
A country house replacing an earlier house of 1828 that was destroyed by fire. The house is in sandstone with a green slate roof. It has two storeys and seven bays, and a two-storey three-bay wing. The central three bays project forward and have pilaster strips and a parapet with an open balustrade. The windows are sashes. On the roof is a polygonal cupola, with stone columns supporting a copper dome.[76][121]
