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| Helena Thompson Museum, Workington | ||
| Helena Thompson Museum | ||
| Workington Museum | ||
| Workington's Attic | ||
| Street:- | Park End Road | |
| locality:- | Workington | |
| civil parish:- | Workington (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | museum | |
| locality type:- | art gallery | |
| coordinates:- | NY00872855 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY0028 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY02 | |
| MDA code:- | WOKTM | |
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 BPT61.jpg (taken 22.10.2008)  BPT62.jpg Helena Thompson room. (taken 22.10.2008) courtesy of the Helena Thompson Museum |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 53 11) placename:- Park End |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "HELENA THOMPSON MUSEUM AND FORMER STABLES / / PARK END ROAD / WORKINGTON / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 72282 / NY0087828563" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "House and stables, now Museum. Late C18 for the Curwen estate. Cement rendered walls, with dentilled cornice under blocking course, and V-jointed quoins, on chamfered plinth. Graduated greenslate roof with coped gables; large cement rendered end chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 5 bays, with lower 2-storey, 2-bay right wing and adjoining former stables at right-angles, forming overall L-shape. Panelled double doors with interlace overlight, within panelled reveals, in fluted-pilaster doorcase with dentilled pediment. Sash windows with glazing bars, those on ground-floor left C20 and enlarged below sills, all in eared architraves. Return walls have Venetian attic windows, that to right rebuilt. Wing has C20 porch and sash windows in painted stone surrounds. Stables have C20 garage doors and gable roundel. Return wall has blocked windows. Interior has many C18 and C19 features. Rear ground-floor room has heavily-moulded Gothic plaster ceiling. Staircase has 3 turned balusters to each tread with moulded handrail and panelled dado. Built for the steward of the Curwen estate and came to the Thompson family as stewards in the early C19. Purchased by Helena Thompson in 1934 and bequeathed at her death to Workington as a Museum, which opened in 1949." |
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 BPT63.jpg Drawing room. (taken 22.10.2008) courtesy of the Helena Thompson Museum |
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