Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Belsfield, The
	locality:-	Bowness-on-Windermere
	parish	Windermere parish, once in Westmorland
	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)
		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
		Map, Winander Mere, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1874.
		Belsfield
		block/s; building/s
	placename:-	Belsfield
	date:-	1874
	period:-	19th century, late; 1870s
	old map:-	Ford 1839 map
		Map of the Lake District, published in A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, 1839.
		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:-
		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

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