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High Moss, Portinscale
High Moss
locality:-   Portinscale
civil parish:-   Above Derwent (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
1Km square:-   NY2423 (?) 
10Km square:-   NY22

notes:-  
Design by William Henry Ward, for John Stanwell Birket, a London solicitor who owned and developed a parcel of land at Portinscale. Built by Thomas and Isaac Hodgson, Keswick.
There is a date stone:-
"J . S / &. L . C / BIRKETT / A.19.D / .01. / ARCHT. / W. H. WARD / T. HODGSON / BUILDER"
The house was bought by William Hudson Scott of Carlisle in 1904.

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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