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Halecat House, Witherslack
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Halecat House
locality:-   Halecat
locality:-   Witherslack
civil parish:-   Witherslack (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   garden
coordinates:-   SD43448359
1Km square:-   SD4383
10Km square:-   SD48

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Hale Cat
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
image
J5SD48SW.jpg
"Hale Cat"
circle, labelled in italic lowercase text; settlement, farm, house, or hamlet? 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"SUMMER HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 70 METRES TO SOUTH OF HALECAT HOUSE / / CHURCH ROAD / WITHERSLACK / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 77139 / SD4343383514"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Summer house. Probably mid to late C19. Dressed stone with slate roof. Octagonal structure with pyramidal roof. Ogee-headed openings to sides have plaster surrounds and small-panel glazing incorporating panels of fragments of C16 or C17 stained glass. 3 entrances in similar style. Roof has weather cock."


photograph
CGG20.jpg  Entrance.
(taken 30.6.2017)  


Longville, Tim &Corbett, Val (photr): 2007: Gardens of the Lake District: Lincoln, Frances (London)

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