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placename:- | Belsfield, The | |
locality:- | Bowness-on-Windermere | |
parish |
Windermere parish, once in
Westmorland
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county:- | Cumbria | |
inn; hotel | ||
coordinates:- |
SD40229666 | |
10Km square:- |
SD49 | |
1Km square | SD4096 | |
![]() Belsfield, The -- Bowness-on-Windermere -- Windermere -- Cumbria / -- 12.5.2008 | ||
![]() Belsfield, The -- Bowness-on-Windermere -- Windermere -- Cumbria / -- 12.5.2008 | ||
old map:- |
OS County Series (Wmd 32
11)
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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. | ||
placename:- | Belsfield | |
building/s | ||
date:- | 1890=1899 | |
period:- | 19th century, late; 1890s | |
old map:- |
Prior 1874 map 1
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Map, Winander Mere, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1874. | ||
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Belsfield | ||
block/s; building/s | ||
placename:- | Belsfield | |
date:- | 1874 | |
period:- | 19th century, late; 1870s | |
old map:- |
Ford 1839 map
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Map of the Lake District, published in A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, 1839. | ||
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Bellfield | ||
placename:- | Bellfield | |
county:- | Westmoreland | |
date:- | 1839 | |
period:- | 19th century, early; 1830s | |
database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
courtesy of English Heritage | ||
BELSFIELD HOTEL / / KENDAL ROAD / WINDERMERE TOWN / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 440174 / SD4024296647 | ||
courtesy of English Heritage | ||
Early C19 and Victorian. Large mansion in prominent position overlooking the lake from a hill top. Italianate style. The whole front facing the lake has 13 windows on each floor, 3 storeys, stuccoed, with heavy modillioned cornice, quoins, some round-headed windows, a verandah on lake front with slender iron columns and iron cresting. A 4-storey square tower on northern end of front, which also has a 3-storeyed bay window. Windows have moulded stone architraves. Interior has plaster ornamented and gilt ceilings, friezes and cornices, plaster panelled walls and door frames, painted doors with floral cartouche. Iron staircase balustrading with mahogany handrail. Present bar has Adam-style ceiling with octagonal panelling, painted ovals etc. | ||
placename:- | Belsfield Hotel | |
district:- | South Lakeland | |
listed building | ||
coordinates:- |
SD40249664 | |
date:- | 2010 | |
period:- | 2010s | |
old print:- | ||
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Print, coloured lithograph, Belsfield, Bowness-on-Windermere, Westmorland, engraved by J McGahey, from a photograph by G Waters, printed by J Richardson, Barrow-in-Furness, 1870? | ||
printed at bottom left, right, centre:- | ||
On Stone by J. McGahey / G Waters Photo / & Printed by J Richardson, Barrow in Furness / BELSFIELD, BOWNESS-ON-WINDERMERE,- THE RESIDENCE OF H. W. SCHNEIDER, ESQ. | ||
placename:- | Belsfield, The | |
person:- | : Schneider, H W | |
date:- | 1870 | |
period:- | 19th century, late | |
notes |
Garden design by Mawson Brothers 1912-14, for H Allen.
Waymark, Janet: 2009: Thomas Mawson, Life, Gardens and Landscapes: Lincoln, Francis (London) | |
photographs | ||
![]() | Belsfield, The -- Bowness-on-Windermere -- Windermere -- Cumbria / -- 3.5.2012 | |
story |
Built as a private house for the Baroness von Sternberg,
1845. Henry W Schneider, made this his country residence
from 1869. He had a private pier built on the lake shore.
Each morning he would walk to the pier, preceeded by his
staf, including the butler with breakfast on a silver tray,
which he eat on his steam yacht Esperance crossing to
Lakeside railway station. He owned the railway, and had his
own train to take him to Furness Abbey and then a brougham
to finish the commute to whchever business demanded his
attention. His secretary who brought the morning mail to be
dealt with on the trip.
The house became a hotel in 1892, proprietor Lieutenant A D Macleod, whose rifle is still displayed in the Lounge of the present hotel. In 1910-11 there were considerable alterations to the building. | |
Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2013 | ||