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| Holehird House, Holehird | ||
| Holehird House | ||
| Lake District Cheshire Home | ||
| locality:- | Troutbeck | |
| locality:- | Holehird | |
| civil parish:- | Windermere (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| coordinates:- | NY41010084 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4100 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY40 | |
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 BSA67.jpg (taken 29.1.2010)  BSA68.jpg (taken 29.1.2010) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 32 4) placename:- Hole Hird |
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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 placename:- Holehird |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "HOLEHIRD / / / WINDERMERE TOWN / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 351653 / NY4102400837" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "1869. Large and dignified Gothic mansion in splendid position, in fine grounds on hill overlooking the Lake. Gables, octagonal chimneys, 2 storeys, local slate, with stone-mullioned windows with pointed or Tudor-arched lights, some cusped, some bay windows. Tudor-arched entrance in gabled porch, with ogee niche containing the date. Long, low proportions." |
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| notes:- |
Thomas H Mawson was commissioned to build greenhouses etc, at Holehird House, 1854,
for William Grimble Groves, brewer. Nothing remains except a walled garden. |
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| Waymark, Janet: 2009: Thomas Mawson, Life, Gardens and Landscapes: Lincoln, Francis
(London) |
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| notes:- |
Design by Joseph Stretch Crowther, 1854-73; alterations by Dan Gibson, 1897. |
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| The house was bought by W G Groves in 1897. He brought his gardener, Edward Robertshaw,
from Alderley Edge, and commissioned greenhouses from Thomas H Mawson. W G Groves
was a sponsor of Reginald Farrer and William Purdom who went to north west China hunting
for plants. |
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| Hyde, Matthew & Whittaker, Esme &Corbet, Val (photographer): 2014: Arts and Craft
Houses in the Lake District: Lincoln, Francis (London):: ISBN 978 0 7112 3408 6 |
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