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Wordsworth House, Sockbridge
Wordsworth House
locality:-   Sockbridge
civil parish:-   Sockbridge and Tirril (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY50002688
1Km square:-   NY5026
10Km square:-   NY52
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010

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BXB30.jpg (taken 10.8.2012)  
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CFP92.jpg  Date stone:-
"D / 16 99 / R E" (taken 21.10.2016)  
evidence:-   possibly old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 7 3) 
placename:-  Sockbridge House
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.
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Wordsworth House
item:-  date stone (1699)
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"WORDSWORTH HOUSE / / / SOCKBRIDGE AND TIRRIL / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74597 / NY4996827052"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"House. Dated and inscribed R&ED 1699 (Reginald & Elizabeth Dobson) over entrance. Painted stucco walls with string course, eaves cornice and V-jointed quoins, on chamfered plinth. Graduated greenslate roof with banded stucco chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 4 bays with right-angled single-storey, 2 bay extension. Centre top-glazed panelled door in bolection architrave. Cross-mullioned windows in stone architraves. Extension has door and sash window in painted stone surrounds within overall glass porch. Interior has ground floor late C17 panelling, wall cupboards, panelled doors and beamed ceilings. Late C17 staircase with twist balusters. See RCHM Westmorland, p214, pl,56."

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BXB31.jpg  Sign.
(taken 10.8.2012)  
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BXB32.jpg  The text on the sign, disappointingly obscure.
(taken 10.8.2012)  
notes:-  
 Built 1699. It was later sold to Richard Wordsworth, Receiver General in the early 18th century. He was grandfather to William Wordsworth.
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