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Esthwaite Lodge

A Grade II Listed Building in Hawkshead, Westmorland and Furness

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.3617 / 54°21'42"N

Longitude: -2.995 / 2°59'41"W

OS Eastings: 335444

OS Northings: 496702

OS Grid: SD354967

Mapcode National: GBR 7LJ0.D6

Mapcode Global: WH82K.ZM0L

Plus Code: 9C6V9264+M2

Entry Name: Esthwaite Lodge

Listing Date: 22 September 1987

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1323111

English Heritage Legacy ID: 76824

ID on this website: 101323111

Location: Roger Ground, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, LA22

County: Westmorland and Furness

District: South Lakeland

Civil Parish: Hawkshead

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria

Church of England Parish: Hawkshead St Michael and All Angels

Church of England Diocese: Carlisle

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Description


HAWKSHEAD SD 39 NE Esthwaite Lodge 6/118

House, now youth hostel. c.1840. Stucco with slate roofs. 2 storeys, 3 x 3 bays with hipped roof, and gabled rear range. Main range has panelled angle pilaster strips and wide bracketed eaves. South-east garden facade has timber trellis verandah, segmental arches with round arches to either end and hipped roof; 1st floor sill band. Windows are sashed with glazing bars and margin lights; those to ground floor are tripartite with consoled entablatures, and flank round-headed niche. Right return has 3 bays similar, the ground floor windows have architraves. Central entrance has Doric porch and 6-panel door in glazed doorcase; overlight with glazing bars. 2 bays to right have sashed windows with glazing bars and casements. Left return similar, with canted bay with hipped roof and French windows with glazing bars and margin lights. Rear has lean-to porch with 6-fielded-panel door to return. Central stack, gable-end stacks and rear lateral stack. Interior has enriched cornices, fireplaces, panelled doors etc. Home of Francis Brett Young, 1884-1954, poet, novelist and physician, lived here 1929-32.

Listing NGR: SD3544496702

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