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Bay Villa, Grange-over-Sands
Bay Villa
locality:-   Grange-over-Sands
civil parish:-   Grange-over-Sands (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD40867794
1Km square:-   SD4077
10Km square:-   SD47

photograph
BYR81.jpg  Bay Villa and the Coffee Pot.
(taken 5.7.2013)  
photograph
BOE83.jpg  Date stone:-
"W / R E / 1849" (taken 28.9.2007)  
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Bay Hall
item:-  date stone (1849); date stone (1860)
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BAY HALL / / MAIN STREET / GRANGE OVER SANDS / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 460536 / SD4087077954"
hearsay:-  
 Part built about 1820 for Robert Wright, designed by Francis Webster. Decsribed in sale particulars, 1841:-
"Bay Villa: usual rooms six bedrooms, two servants rooms, water closet, conservatory, and two pews, one in Lindale chapel for five and one in Cartmel Priory for six."
An extension by its owner, Dr Beardsley, 1860, included a coach house, tower, and gazebo.
It was used as a library until 1968.
And was a meeting place of the Plymouth Brethren.
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