Description

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SD 39 NW
5/70

CONISTON
Lodge and former stable approx 70m to south of Brantwood

GV
II*

Lodge and stable. Stable probably C18; lodge 1872 for John Ruskin. Roughcast stone with slate roof, rear wing stone rubble. Two storeys, two bays, with smaller, recessed two-bay wing to rear. Left angle is canted. Slate dripcourse over ground floor. Ground floor has four- and three-light mullioned windows, with two-light window to angle. First floor has four-light flat-topped dormer; to canted angle a canted oriel dormer with gable and small return lights. Right hand angle has gabled oriel dormer set across angle with pyramidal roof. Left return has sashed windows, first floor loading door and lateral stack. Right return has lateral stack and entrance; rear wing has two entrances each with small-paned light to left. First floor windows. Opening to rear wall to take waterfall, stream partly culverted through building emerging through opening in front wall.

Listing NGR: SD3123495798

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q58437130

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)