Workington Hall

Workington Hall, in some cases called Curwen Hall, is a destroyed expanding on the North- East edges of the town of Workington in Cumbria. It is a Grade I recorded building. A peel tower was based on the site in 1362. The present house goes back to around 1404 and was worked as a strengthened pinnacle house. In 1568, Mary, Queen of Scots composed a letter from Workington Hall to Queen Elizabeth I of England. Additions to the house were completed by John Carr in the 1780s and the greenery enclosures were spread out by Thomas White at around the equivalent time.

In the mid 19^th century the ruler of the estate at Workington Hall was John Christian Curwen, born John Christian, who acquired the corridor from Eldred Curwen in 1790 and took the Curwen name. He was Member of Parliament for Carlisle from 1786 to 1812 and from 1816 to 1820, after this with a period as part for Cumberland from 1820 to 1828. Workington changed fundamentally both financially and socially, amid the period when John Christian was ruler of the estate 1783– 1828.