Low Wood Hotel
LOW WOOD HOTEL, WINDERMERE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272015
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Low Wood Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- LOW WOOD HOTEL, WINDERMERE ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/11747/06
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272015
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Low Wood Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOW WOOD HOTEL, 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:
- LOW WOOD HOTEL, WINDERMERE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lakes
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 38572 02064
Details
1. 1291A AMBLESIDE WINDERMERE ROAD Low Wood Hotel NY 30 SE 10/48 II 2. C18 coaching inn used by the Lake poets and writers, extended 1859. Exclude C20 portion to north. Very long range of building along the lake shore, mainly 3 storeys. Main block in centre has 9 windows on top floor, each with a projecting gable above, and the one over the entrance is in a higher tower-like portion with the dated roundel (1859) above the roofline. Ground and 1st floors have some double or treble sashes, and an iron balcony extends over the centre 4 bays, on coupled piers. A 3-storeyed wing projects towards the lake on the south and has a lean-to verandah of clustered columns and Gothic imposts, over a ground floor of 2 large open pointed arches with slender colonnettes. Serve Tudor arched windows, Gothic labels, iron balconies, and an ogee-headed niche.
Listing NGR: NY3857202064
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 451908
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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