The Birkbecks of Westmorland and their descendants . res which Catterick Birkbeck is an interesting account of Hornby by Dr. Taylor in the Trans-actions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian Society, vol. iv.,p. 392, from which I have supplemented the notes I made on the spot. The house is solidly built of dark sandstone and roofed with flagstones,o!:e end being modern, the older portion having mullioned windows. Afeature of the old part is the square porch turret projecting a dozen feet infront of the main building, and carried up to the height of the roof ridge ;the o
The Birkbecks of Westmorland and their descendants . res which Catterick Birkbeck is an interesting account of Hornby by Dr. Taylor in the Trans-actions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian Society, vol. iv.,p. 392, from which I have supplemented the notes I made on the spot. The house is solidly built of dark sandstone and roofed with flagstones,o!:e end being modern, the older portion having mullioned windows. Afeature of the old part is the square porch turret projecting a dozen feet infront of the main building, and carried up to the height of the roof ridge ;the outer doorway is arched, and has over it a stone escutcheon with severalshields, overgrown with ivy, and so much defaced from the crumblingnature of the stone that I could make nothing of the arms except a helmetover the centre shield. Dr. Haswell, in Notes on Local Heraldry,considers the arms to be Dalston of Acorn Bank, no doubt placed there byThomas Dalston. Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian Society, vol. xiv.,i>.
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