Global InformationEsthwaite Lodge information
| Esthwaite Lodge | |
|---|---|
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| Location | Hawkshead |
| Coordinates | 54°21′42″N 2°59′41″W / 54.36167°N 2.99472°W |
| OS grid reference | SD354966 |
| Area | Cumbria, England |
| Built | 1819–21 |
| Built for | Thomas Alcock Beck |
| Architect | George Webster |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
| Designated | 22 September 1987 |
| Reference no. | 1323111 |
  Location of Esthwaite Lodge in Cumbria | |
Esthwaite Lodge is a 19th-century house in Hawkshead, Cumbria, England; it is a Grade II listed building.
The house was commissioned by Thomas Alcock Beck, a local resident and antiquarian. He employed Kendal-based architect George Webster to design a property for him.[1]
Webster's design was a stuccoed villa of two storeys and three bays with a slate hipped roof. Completed in 1821 the house is in the Neoclassical Greek Revival style a Doric porch was added.[1][2]
Beck died in 1846 but his widow and his descendants continued to live in the house until the early 20th century.[3][4] The 1911 census for England, however, records the property as being unoccupied.[5]
Ownership of the house passed to the Brocklebank family who leased the house to a number of tenants.[6] One of these, between 1929 and 1932 was the novelist Francis Brett Young until he decided that the weather was too wet for him.[7][8]
With the outbreak of the Second World War the house was used for accommodating volunteers involved with the Hawkshead Afforestation Scheme and later members of the Women's Land Army.[9]
In 1942 the house was purchased by Youth Hostels Association (England & Wales) and remains in use as a youth hostel.[10][11]
- ^ a b Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2010) [1967]. Cumbria. The Buildings of England. Yale University Press. pp. 399–400. ISBN 978-0-300-12663-1.
- ^ Historic England. "Esthwaite Lodge (1323111)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
- ^ Hand-Book to the English Lakes (8th ed.). Kendal: Thomas Atkinson. 1853. p. 28.
- ^ "List of members of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society" (PDF). Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society. 1. 16: 303. 1900 – via Archaeology Data Service.
- ^ 1911 Census Enumerator's Summary Book: Registration District - Ulveston :Registration Sub-district - Hawkshead, 1911, p. 10
- ^ Hall, Michael (1997). Francis Brett Young. Seren. p. 121. ISBN 978-1854112088.
- ^ Twitchett, Eric Gilbert (1936). Francis Brett Young. Harper and brothers. p. 264.
- ^ Welsh, Frank (2000). The Companion Guide to the Lake District. Companion Guides. p. 261. ISBN 978-1900639231.
- ^ Best, Ethelwyn & Pike, Bernard (1948). International Voluntary Service for Peace, 1920-1946: A History of Work in Many Countries for the Benefit of Distressed Communities and for the Reconciliation of the Peoples. International Voluntary Service for Peace. p. 84.
- ^ Coburn, Oliver (1950). Youth Hostel Story. National Council of Social Service. p. 89.
- ^ Wood, Jason (2016). The Making of a Cultural Landscape: The English Lake District as Tourist Destination, 1750-2010. Routledge. p. 152.