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Dalton Hall is a
country house
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near
Burton-in-Kendal
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in northern
England
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. The hall lies within the
county palatine of Lancaster
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, while Burton lies in the historic county of
Westmorland
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. Both have formed part of
Cumbria
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since 1974.
The hall has been in the ownership of the Hornby family since the late 18th century. Major additions were made to the large
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mansion
in 1859–60 by Edmund Geoffrey Stanley Hornby (1839-1923), a
Deputy Lieutenant for Lancashire, son and heir of
Edmund Hornby (1773-1857), MP, to the designs of the
Lancaster architect
Edward Graham Paley
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. The building was demolished in 1968 and replaced in 1968–72 by a much smaller new house designed by
Clough Williams-Ellis
Sir Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis, CBE, MC (28 May 1883 – 9 April 1978) was a Welsh architect known chiefly as the creator of the Italianate village of Portmeirion in North Wales. He became a major figure in the development of Welsh architec ...
, his last commission.
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described it as "a stately doll's house
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" which "sits inside the ghost of its predecessor".[ The outbuildings have been converted to serve a number of commercial purposes, including rental cottages, a self-storage facility, and the Dalton Hall Business Centre.
]
Estate
In 2018 the Dalton Estate included three farms:
*Coat Green Farm – a tenanted mixed dairy farm.
*Dalton Old Hall – a tenanted mixed beef and sheep farm.
*Russell Farm – a tenanted farm.
In addition the estate owns the following 18 dwellings:
*Bell House – 4 bedroom detached house
*Crow Trees – 3 bedroom detached cottage
*Burton Lodge – 2 bedroom gate lodge
*Dalton Lodge – 2 bedroom gate lodge
*3 Forestry Houses – 3 bedroom 1950's semi-detached
*4 Forestry Houses – 3 bedroom 1950's semi-detached
*Home Farm – 3 bedroom house – AVAILABLE TO LET
*Keeper's Cottage – 3 bedroom detached cottage c/w barn
*1 Park View 3 bedroom attached cottage
*2 Park View – 4 bedroom attached cottage
*1 Woodside Cottages – 3 bedroom 1960's semi-detached
*2 Woodside Cottages – 3 bedroom 1960's semi-detached
*Old Post Office Flat, Kirkby Stephen – 2 bedroom apartment
Hornby family
prominent members of the Hornby family include:
* Edmund Hornby (1773-1857), MP, whose mother was a daughter of James Smith-Stanley, Lord Strange
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(1716–1771), (son and heir apparent of Edward Stanley, 11th Earl of Derby
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(1689-1776) of Knowsley Hall
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in Lancashire) and a sister of Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby
Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby PC (1 September 1752 ( O.S.) – 21 October 1834), usually styled Lord Stanley from 1771 to 1776, was a British peer and politician of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He held office a ...
(1752-1834). He himself married his first cousin Lady Charlotte Stanley (d.1805), a daughter of the 12th Earl of Derby. Edmund Hornby's nephew was thus Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
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(1799-1869), thrice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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(1852, 1858–9, 1866-8).
*Admiral
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Sir Phipps Hornby
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(1785-1867), younger brother of Edmund Hornby (1773-1857).
See also
* List of non-ecclesiastical works by E. G. Paley
* List of works by Clough Williams-Ellis
References
External links
Dalton Hall Business Centre
Country houses in Cumbria
E. G. Paley buildings
Burton-in-Kendal
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