Esthwaite Lodge
ESTHWAITE LODGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323111
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Esthwaite Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- ESTHWAITE LODGE
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- IOE01/10992/14
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323111
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Esthwaite Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- ESTHWAITE LODGE
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:
- ESTHWAITE LODGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hawkshead
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 35444 96702
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 76824
- 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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