Cattle grid on road approaching Cardew Lodge

Cardew Lodge is a country house at Cardew near Thursby in Cumbria. It is a Grade II listed building.[1]

History

The house was built as a hunting lodge for Major-General William Henry Lowther following his retirement from the Bengal Army[2] 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."[3]

The house was acquired by C. J. 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.[4] It became the retirement home of Barbara Dunn, the first British licensed radio operator, after the Second World War[5] and then became the home of the Mallinson family in 1980.[6]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Cardew Lodge, Dalston". British listed buildings. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  2. ↑ "No. 24782". The London Gazette. 11 November 1879. p. 6368.
  3. ↑ Allhoff, Fritz; O'Brien, Dan (25 February 2011). Gardening - Philosophy for Everyone: Cultivating Wisdom. John Wiley & Sons. p. 90. ISBN 978-1-4443-2457-0. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
  4. ↑ "The buildings of Cardew Lodge". Cardew Lodge. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  5. ↑ "Barbara Dunn". Ham Gallery. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  6. ↑ "Got a spare £1.5m for a Carlisle home?". News and Star. 19 August 2009. Retrieved 2 August 2015.

54°49′57″N 3°02′01″W / 54.8326°N 3.0335°W / 54.8326; -3.0335

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