Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Castle Head | |
| parish |
Grange-over-Sands parish,
once in Lancashire
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| building/s; field studies centre | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD42157983 | |
| 10Km square:- |
SD47
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| 1Km square | SD4279 | |
| 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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| Castlehead | ||
| placename:- | Castlehead | |
| county:- | Lancashire | |
| date:- | 1839 | |
| period:- | 19th century, early; 1830s | |
| old map:- |
West 1784 map
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| A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, now Cumbria, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, included in the Guide to the Lakes by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Westmorland, and in London, from the 3rd edition 1784, to 1821. | ||
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| placename:- | Castlehead | |
| building/s | ||
| county:- | Lancashire | |
| descriptive text:- |
West 1778 (11th edn 1821)
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| Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821. | ||
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| Page 29, footnote:- | ||
| A little to the left of Whitbarrow [from Lancaster Sands] is Castlehead, which is now in the possession of the executor of John Wilkinson, Esq. The house is seen to advantage as you cross the sands, and greatly enlivens the part of the coast where it is situated. | ||
| placename:- | Castlehead | |
| person:- | : Wilkinson, John | |
| date:- | 1778 | |
| period:- | 18th century, late; 1770s | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| CASTLE HEAD / / LINDALE ROAD / GRANGE OVER SANDS / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 460525 / SD4215279839 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Large house, now field centre. Late C18. For J Wilkinson. Extensively re-modelled and extended in the later C19, with further C20 additions made when used as a school. Painted render with slate roofs. PLAN AND | ||
| EXTERIOR: the earliest part of the building is of rectangular plan with 2 parallel hipped roofs, of 3 storeys, with the 3 main facades of 3 window bays each and having a continuous timber verandah (part glazed and part slated). The windows are timber casements and those to the outer window bays of each facade have projecting sills, plain reveals, and segmental arches with keystones and chamfered voussoirs. The central window bays to the north and south are recessed, with wider timber casements on the 1st and 2nd floors, and doorways on the ground floor. The east facade has a 3-storey canted bay window. The verandah is supported on paired timber posts and has latticework balustrading. Near the main entrance there is cresting with the initial 'M': the house was owned by Edward Mucklow in the late C19. The facades have bracketed cornice gutters. | ||
| HISTORY: the house was built for John Wilkinson (1728-1808) the iron master and is raised above the adjoining mosslands which he drained and improved from 1778 onwards. Despite its late C19 appearance, an early C19 view reproduced by JM Robinson shows that the walls, the roof shape, and the positions of the openings, remain from the original house. The further C20 blocks to the north and south are not of special architectural interest. (Robinson JM: A Guide to the Country Houses of the North-West: London: 1991-: 171). | ||
| placename:- | Castle Head | |
| district:- | South Lakeland | |
| listed building | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD42157983 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| ANIMAL SHELTER TO NORTH OF BOATHOUSE AT CASTLE HEAD / / LINDALE ROAD / GRANGE OVER SANDS / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 460527 / SD4216679588 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Garden building, now used as animal shelter. Early or mid C19. Limestone rubble, now with corrugated sheet roof. Built against hillside, with embattled parapets. The east wall contains a pointed entrance archway. Above, the parapet is stepped upwards and is capped by a piece of limestone pavement. To left and right the corners of the building are splayed at 45 degrees. The boathouse is not included. | ||
| district:- | South Lakeland | |
| listed building | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD42167958 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| FORMER STABLE BLOCK AT CASTLE HEAD / / LINDALE ROAD / GRANGE OVER SANDS / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 460526 / SD4198979772 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Stable block and farm buildings. 1864. Outer walls of rock-faced limestone and limestone rubble, and inner walls of brick. Roofs of corrugated asbestos replacing slate. Arranged symmetrically around a courtyard. Above the elliptical entrance arch on the west side is an embattled wall with a plaque inscribed '1864'. The entrance has iron gates and a cast-iron weighbridge. The western range is used as a barn and has 2 round archways. The central part of the eastern range has boarded doorways. To the south of the main buildings an embattled wall borders the driveway and encloses a yard, the east side of which is formed by brick lean-to shelter sheds under a slate roof. | ||
| district:- | South Lakeland | |
| listed building -- stable | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD41987977 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| GATE PIERS TO SOUTH OF SOUTH LODGE TO CASTLE HEAD / / LINDALE ROAD / GRANGE OVER SANDS / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 460530 / SD4172179299 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Pair of gate piers. Mid to late C19. Limestone ashlar. 8-sided plan, with chamfered rustication, and moulded pyramid caps. | ||
| district:- | South Lakeland | |
| listed building -- gate piers | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD41727929 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| SOUTH LODGE TO CASTLE HEAD / / LINDALE ROAD / GRANGE OVER SANDS / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 460529 / SD4170979309 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Lodge to Castle Head (qv). Mid to late C19. Rock-faced limestone with slate roof. Single storey, with basement to rear. A gable faces west towards the main road and has a C20 casement window with glazing bars. Similar window set back to the left rises into a hipped dormer. The left-hand return wall is of 2 windows above windows which light the basement and has similar dormers. At the right, next to the drive entrance, is a tower of square plan with a pyramid roof, surrounded on 2 sides by a slated verandah. It has glazed door openings in its front and right-hand walls, and quatrefoiled openings in both walls above the verandah. The verandah is carried on 6 cast-iron barleysugar columns, on sandstone bases, which support arched timber brackets which are pierced with quatrefoils. | ||
| district:- | South Lakeland | |
| listed building | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD41707930 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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