Merlewood
MERLEWOOD, WINDERMERE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269661
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Merlewood
- Statutory Address:
- MERLEWOOD, WINDERMERE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269661
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Jul-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Merlewood
- Statutory Address 1:
- MERLEWOOD, WINDERMERE ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MERLEWOOD, WINDERMERE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Grange-Over-Sands
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 40958 79614
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22/10/2012
SD47NW
705-1/2/44
02/05/75
GRANGE-OVER-SANDS
WINDERMERE ROAD
(West side (off))
Merlewood
(Formerly Listed as WINDERMERE ROAD, Merlewood (Victorian parts only))
GV
II
Large house, now apartments. 1853. For Alfred Binyon by architects
Thompson and Webster. Extended 1881 for William Pitt Miller.
Limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and slate roof. Irregular
plan with steep gables.
Two high storeys plus attics. North facade has gabled wooden
porch, cusped and ornamented, 3 unequal gables with ornamented
bargeboards, and long stair window. Above the porch there is a
timber oriel window. Farther to the right there is a
subsidiary porch, with a pointed arched window in the porch
room. The south front is more symmetrical, with 2 windows on
each floor in centre, gabled centre attic window, and flanking
gables with 2-storey bay windows. The wing to the right has
another 2-storeyed bay window facing east. A lower wing to the
left connects with an oblong tower which has a pyramid roof
and wind vane. Its front wall was rebuilt in the mid C20 and
the right-hand return wall has a plaque carved with a coat of
arms and date '1881'. Tall chimneys, some clustered.
Interior: Elements of the original interior survive as does a
fireplace which contains decorative coloured tiles either side of
the fire grate. The tiles form rectangular borders depicting
urns containing foliage. The borders each surround a central panel
which depicts a romanticised medieval scene, one a male walking
through dense woodland carrying a spear and a dagger as if hunting,
the other a male stood in a woodland clearing outside a castle
preparing to release a bird of prey for sport.
SOURCES:
Merlewood 1850-1950. Becket,J. & gardiner,A. 1987. ISBN 0 9512421 0 5.
Listing NGR: SD4095879614
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460554
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Becket, J, Gardiner, A, Merlewood 1850-1950, (1987)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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