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placename:- Morland House
locality:- Morland
parish Morland parish, once in Westmorland
county:- Cumbria
building/s
coordinates:- NY59872250
10Km square:- NY52
References Listed Buildings 2010

1Km square NY5922

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Morland House -- Morland -- Morland -- Cumbria / -- 2.12.2011

database:- Listed Buildings 2010

Listed Buildings 2010

courtesy of English Heritage
MORLAND HOUSE / / / MORLAND / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 423201 / NY5987822503
courtesy of English Heritage
Large house, mid C16 with later additions; extensively rebuilt in C19. Coursed, squared rubble with quoins. Graduated slate roofs with corniced stone chimneys; stone copings with kneelers, some of which have ball finials. Complex asymmetrical plan and elevations with numerous projecting bays and wings. 2 storeys overall. 6-bay front is largely C19 reconstruction with 3 gables, including that to angled porch; mullioned 2- and 3-light windows, some with transoms or segmental heads which may be original. The north side of the main courtyard incorporates a mid C18 wing with pedimented doorcase, rusticated quoins and 1st floor band; projecting central bay on east side incorporates ground-floor summer house with 1880 date on carved lintel. Attached coach- house to south-west is built of roughly dressed, squared, snecked rubble; openings facing road have segmental heads under hoodmoulds with labels.

placename:- Morland House
district:- Eden
listed building
coordinates:- NY59872250
date:- 2010
period:- 2010s

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