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Latitude: 54.738 / 54°44'16"N
Longitude: -2.8156 / 2°48'55"W
OS Eastings: 347587
OS Northings: 538417
OS Grid: NY475384
Mapcode National: GBR 8FSN.7C
Mapcode Global: WH80X.Q5GM
Plus Code: 9C6VP5QM+5Q
Entry Name: Brackenburgh
Listing Date: 27 December 1967
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1290471
English Heritage Legacy ID: 73872
ID on this website: 101290471
Location: Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, CA11
County: Cumbria
District: Eden
Civil Parish: Hesket
Traditional County: Cumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria
Church of England Parish: Plumpton Wall St John the Evangelist
Church of England Diocese: Carlisle
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NY 43 NE HESKET BRACKENBURGH
10/148 Brackenburgh
27.12.67
II
House divided into 2 dwellings. Inscribed and dated with Harris coat-of-arms MY
PRINCE AND MY COUNTRY, 1902, by Sir Robert Lorimer for Joseph Harris, with minor
1960 alterations (including demolition of servants' wing). Dressed cream
Lazonby sandstone walls with parapets and flush quoins. Graduated greenslate
roof with banded ashlar sandstone chimney stacks. Large country house of
2 storeys of numerous bays in L-shape. Garden facade has, left to right:
projecting dining room, music room and hall with intervening round-arched loggia
in front of boudoir; at right the right-angled office range is now divided off
as a separate property. Various large transomed and mullioned windows some of
them canted bay windows. Rear entrance facade has high projecting central
5 bays, left billiard room converted to garage and right 3-bay section now blank
walls after demolition of projecting wing. Left double plank doors in round
arch under crested coat-of-arms, with pilasters carried up to string course and
over oriel window with flanking lions, all under a shell hood. Large transomed
and mullioned window; further doorways and 2-light windows on 3 levels. Left
polygonal angle turret and various mullioned windows on 2 levels. Right wing
has 2- and 4-light windows. Orangery connects with The Old Tower. See
Christopher Hussey, The Work of Sir Robert Lorimer, 1931, pp.40-1.
Listing NGR: NY4758738417
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