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Muncaster House, Loweswater
Muncaster House
locality:-   Loweswater
civil parish:-   Loweswater (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY14742102
1Km square:-   NY1421
10Km square:-   NY12
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


photograph
BVE94.jpg (taken 17.8.2011)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 63 9) 
placename:-  Muncaster 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:-  Muncaster House
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MUNCASTER HOUSE / / / SETMURTHY / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72750 / NY1473521017"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"House, late C18 or early C19. Rendered rubble. Lakeland slate roof with stone ridge, gable copings and square kneelers, rendered end and off-centre chimneys. Possibly once house and cottage. Two storeys, one narrow and two wider bays. Right hand (house) part has central 6-panelled door in round-arched iron trellis porch. Replaced windows with thin glazing bars in painted stone surrounds. Rear elevation shows round-headed staircase window with Y-traceried head and small fire windows at left; other windows C19 sashes. Small pentice to rear, and other pent extensions, with added projections, at both ends, all of similar materials. Interior not seen."

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