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Gatesbield, Windermere
Gatesbield
locality:-   Windermere
civil parish:-   Windermere (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
1Km square:-   SD4198 (?) 
10Km square:-   SD49

notes:-  
Arts and Craft house designed by Stanley and Emily Davies for themselves, 1926. And built by themsleves using stone from the site.
They had a furniture workshop, Craft Cottage, from 1923, and extolled the 'never failing beauty of simple things'.

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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