Helsfell Hall

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Helsfell Hall was a country house near Kentrigg in Cumbria. That part of the building which survives, and is now used as a barn, is a Grade II listed building.^[1]

Kentrigg is a northern suburb of Kendal, Cumbria, England. By road, Kentrigg is located 1.2 miles (1.9 km) north of the centre of Kendal and 1.4 miles (2.3 km) southeast of Burneside. It contains the Carus Green Golf Club, which separates it from Burneside just to the northwest. Across the River Kent to the east is the Shap Road Industrial Estate, north of the district of Mintsfeet and the Mintsfeet Industrial Estate which marks the southeastern side of Kentrigg.

Cumbria is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local government, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Cumbria's county town is Carlisle, in the north of the county, and the only other major urban area is Barrow-in-Furness on the southwestern tip of the county.

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

History

The house was built in the 16th century probably for Robert Briggs. The hall is mentioned in Cornelia Nicholson's The Annals of Kendal who documents that the seat of the Briggs family was "once a place of considerable importance."^[2] During the English Civil War in the 1640s, the Briggs family fought on the Parliamentary side (Colonel Edward Briggs was a magistrate).^[3] After the war the Philipsons of Hollin Hall, who were Royalists, stripped the Briggs family of all their local possessions, including Helsfell Hall, which was left to become derelict.^[2]

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References

↑ "Barn 200 Metres South East of Helsfell Farmhouse, Strickland Ketel". British listed buildings. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
1 2 "The castles, towers and fortified buildings of Cumbria". Matthew Pemmott. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
↑ Gilpin, William (1808). Observations on several parts of England, particularly the mountains and lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland: relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1772. Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies. p. 147. Retrieved 1 August 2012.

Coordinates: 54°20′15″N2°46′14″W / 54.3376°N 2.7706°W / 54.3376; -2.7706

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[1] "Barn 200 Metres South East of Helsfell Farmhouse, Strickland Ketel". British listed buildings. Retrieved 26 July 2015.

[mp-2] 1 2 "The castles, towers and fortified buildings of Cumbria". Matthew Pemmott. Retrieved 26 July 2015.

[Gilpin1808-3] Gilpin, William (1808). Observations on several parts of England, particularly the mountains and lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland: relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1772. Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies. p. 147. Retrieved 1 August 2012.