Esthwaite Lodge

Esthwaite Lodge
Location Hawkshead
Coordinates 54°21′42″N 2°59′41″W / 54.36167°N 2.99472°W / 54.36167; -2.99472Coordinates: 54°21′42″N 2°59′41″W / 54.36167°N 2.99472°W / 54.36167; -2.99472
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]

References

  1. 1 2 Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2010) [1967]. Cumbria. The Buildings of England. Yale University Press. pp. 399–400. ISBN 978-0-300-12663-1.
  2. ↑ Historic England. "Esthwaite Lodge (1323111)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
  3. ↑ Hand-Book to the English Lakes (8th ed.). Kendal: Thomas Atkinson. 1853. p. 28.
  4. ↑ "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.
  5. ↑ 1911 Census Enumerator's Summary Book: Registration District - Ulveston :Registration Sub-district - Hawkshead, 1911, p. 10
  6. ↑ Hall, Michael (1997). Francis Brett Young. Seren. p. 121. ISBN 978-1854112088.
  7. ↑ Twitchett, Eric Gilbert (1936). Francis Brett Young. Harper and brothers. p. 264.
  8. ↑ Welsh, Frank (2000). The Companion Guide to the Lake District. Companion Guides. p. 261. ISBN 978-1900639231.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ Coburn, Oliver (1950). Youth Hostel Story. National Council of Social Service. p. 89.
  11. ↑ Wood, Jason (2016). The Making of a Cultural Landscape: The English Lake District as Tourist Destination, 1750-2010. Routledge. p. 152.
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