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| Hydro, Bowness-on-Windermere | ||
| Windermere Hydro Hotel | ||
| Street:- | Helm Road | |
| locality:- | Bowness-on-Windermere | |
| civil parish:- | Windermere (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| coordinates:- | SD40639703 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD4097 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD49 | |
| references:- | Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s item:- limestone pavement |
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| source data:- | Photograph, black and white, Hydropathic Hotel, Bowness-on-Windermere, Windermere,
Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s. click to enlargeHB0821.jpg internegative at lower right:- "H. Bell" item:- Armitt Library : ALPS484 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old advertisement:- Bemrose 1881 placename:- Windermere Hydropathic Establishment |
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| source data:- | Advertisement for John Stubbs, Shap Wells Hotel, Crosby Ravensworth, and for the Windermere
Hydropathic Establishment, Bowness-on-Windermere, Westmorland, published by Bemrose
and Sons, 23 Old Bailey, London and Derby, by A B Moss, Carlisle, Cumberland, and
by T Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, about 1881. click to enlargeBEM1A6.jpg Included in a Handy Guide to the English Lakes and Shap Spa. item:- JandMN : 455.36 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Hydro, The |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "THE HYDRO / / HELM ROAD / WINDERMERE TOWN / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 351682 / SD4063497030" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Victorian, Italian style. Stuccoed, mainly 2 storeys, with cornice bands between storeys, and round-headed dormers on roof. Large sash windows in moulded architraves with cornices, the lower ones with aprons. Front towards the lake has 7 winows on first floor, including a round 2-storeyed bay with balustraded parapet. Entrance on south side in square 3-storeyed tower, with a round-arched dcorway and ground floor window, both with fluted pilasters. Top floor has coupled round-arched windows on each face of tower, with moulded arches, fluted pilasters and dentilled cornice. Omit later extensions to south." |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "LODGE AT THE HYDRO / / HELM ROAD / WINDERMERE TOWN / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 351683 / SD4060396985" |
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