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Gate House Outward Bound School, Eskdale Green
Outward Bound School
Gate House
locality:-   Eskdale Green
civil parish:-   Eskdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   school
coordinates:-   NY14350022
1Km square:-   NY1400
10Km square:-   NY10
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
item:-  date stone (1896)
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"GATE HOUSE (OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL) / / / ESKDALE / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76214 / NY1435700223"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Large house, now Outward Bound School. Dated 1896 on panel over door; some rainwater heads dated 1901. By A. Huddart of Whitehaven for James H. Rea (initials on dated panel). Tower is later addition. Coursed, squared rubble with sandstone details. Graduated slate roofs have stone ridges, copings, and kneelers; stone chimneys (some projecting). Asymmetrical plan. Main house 2 storeys with full-height porch and canted bay; 3-storey tower. Sandstone quoins and string-courses; blocking course to house roof, castellated parapet to tower. 4-centred outer porch opening; scattered fenestration in chamfered stone-mullioned surrounds."
 sundial
notes:-  
 Design by Arthur Huddart, for James H Rea. Built of local pink granite with sandstone dressings. The house overlooks a tarn which was made for it, with a boat house.

Hyde, Matthew & Whittaker, Esme &Corbet, Val (photographer): 2014: Arts and Craft Houses in the Lake District: Lincoln, Francis (London):: ISBN 978 0 7112 3408 6
notes:-  
 A japanese garden was designed by Thomas H Mawson at a house on the Gate House estate, Eskdale, 1914, for the Rea Family.

Waymark, Janet: 2009: Thomas Mawson, Life, Gardens and Landscapes: Lincoln, Francis (London)

photograph
BYF41.jpg  Outbuildings,
(taken 27.4.2013)  
photograph
BYF42.jpg  Gateway.
(taken 27.4.2013)  
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