Cardew Lodge
| Cardew Lodge | |
| Cumberland | |
|---|---|
 The entrance to Cardew Lodge | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NY33714913 |
| Location: | 54°49’57"N, 3°2’1"W |
| Village: | Cardew |
| History | |
| Built 1870s | |
| For: | Gen. William Henry Lowther |
| Country house | |
| Information | |
Cardew Lodge is a country house at Cardew near Thursby in Cumberland. It is a Grade II listed building.[1][2]
History
The house was built as a hunting lodge for Major-General William Henry Lowther following his retirement from the Bengal Army[3] in the late 1870s.[1] The house has "single-storey gabled wings reminiscent of an Indian bungalow, which he stuffed with mementos of his time in Bengal, including the skin of a crocodile shot after it had eaten a man, and he planted rhododendrons and azaleas in his garden."[4]
The house was acquired by Charles John Ferguson, an architect, who designed and commissioned additions in 1889.[1] In addition to the turreted tower which is built into the house, it has twin towers on the drive up to the house.[5] It became the retirement home of Barbara Dunn, the first British licensed radio operator, after the Second World War[6] and then became the home of the Mallinson family in 1980.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Cardew Lodge, Dalston - British Listed Buildings
- ↑ National Heritage List 1087435: Cardew Lodge
- ↑ London Gazette: no. 24782, p. 6368, 11 November 1879.
- ↑ Allhoff, Fritz and O'Brien, Dan: 'Gardening - Philosophy for Everyone: Cultivating Wisdom' (John Wiley & Sons, 2011) ISBN 978-1-4443-2457-0, page 90
- ↑ The buildings of Cardew Lodge
- ↑ "Barbara Dunn". Ham Gallery. http://hamgallery.com/Tribute/G6YL/. Retrieved 2 August 2015.