Esthwaite Lodge

Esthwaite Lodge is a 19th-century house in Hawkshead, Cumbria, England; it is a Grade II listed building.

Esthwaite Lodge
LocationHawkshead
Coordinates54°21′42″N 2°59′41″W
OS grid referenceSD354966
AreaCumbria, England
Built1819–21
Built forThomas Alcock Beck
ArchitectGeorge Webster
Listed Building – Grade II
Designated22 September 1987
Reference no.1323111
Location of Esthwaite Lodge in Cumbria

The house was commissioned by Thomas Alcock Beck, a local resident and antiquarian. He employed Kendal-based architect George Webster to design a property for him.[1]

Webster's design was a stuccoed villa of two storeys and three bays with a slate hipped roof. Completed in 1821 the house is in the Neoclassical Greek Revival style a Doric porch was added.[1][2]

Beck died in 1846 but his widow and his descendants continued to live in the house until the early 20th century.[3][4] The 1911 census for England, however, records the property as being unoccupied.[5]

Ownership of the house passed to the Brocklebank family who leased the house to a number of tenants.[6] One of these, between 1929 and 1932 was the novelist Francis Brett Young until he decided that the weather was too wet for him.[7][8]

With the outbreak of the Second World War the house was used for accommodating volunteers involved with the Hawkshead Afforestation Scheme and later members of the Women's Land Army.[9]

In 1942 the house was purchased by Youth Hostels Association (England & Wales) and remains in use as a youth hostel.[10][11]

See also

References
  1. Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2010) [1967]. Cumbria. The Buildings of England. Yale University Press. pp. 399–400. ISBN 978-0-300-12663-1.
  2. Historic England. "Esthwaite Lodge (1323111)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
  3. Hand-Book to the English Lakes (8th ed.). Kendal: Thomas Atkinson. 1853. p. 28.
  4. "List of members of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society" (PDF). Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society. 1. 16: 303. 1900 – via Archaeology Data Service.
  5. 1911 Census Enumerator's Summary Book: Registration District - Ulveston :Registration Sub-district - Hawkshead, 1911, p. 10
  6. Hall, Michael (1997). Francis Brett Young. Seren. p. 121. ISBN 978-1854112088.
  7. Twitchett, Eric Gilbert (1936). Francis Brett Young. Harper and brothers. p. 264.
  8. Welsh, Frank (2000). The Companion Guide to the Lake District. Companion Guides. p. 261. ISBN 978-1900639231.
  9. Best, Ethelwyn & Pike, Bernard (1948). International Voluntary Service for Peace, 1920-1946: A History of Work in Many Countries for the Benefit of Distressed Communities and for the Reconciliation of the Peoples. International Voluntary Service for Peace. p. 84.
  10. Coburn, Oliver (1950). Youth Hostel Story. National Council of Social Service. p. 89.
  11. Wood, Jason (2016). The Making of a Cultural Landscape: The English Lake District as Tourist Destination, 1750-2010. Routledge. p. 152.
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