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Latitude: 54.6494 / 54°38'57"N
Longitude: -2.8313 / 2°49'52"W
OS Eastings: 346454
OS Northings: 528575
OS Grid: NY464285
Mapcode National: GBR 8GNP.T2
Mapcode Global: WH819.GDZJ
Plus Code: 9C6VJ5X9+QF
Entry Name: Summer House on Top of Flusco Pike
Listing Date: 24 October 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1221065
English Heritage Legacy ID: 73767
ID on this website: 101221065
Location: Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, CA11
County: Cumbria
District: Eden
Civil Parish: Dacre
Traditional County: Cumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria
Church of England Parish: Dacre St Andrew
Church of England Diocese: Carlisle
Tagged with: Summer house
NY 42 NE DACRE FLUSCO PIKE
16/48 Summer House on top
of Flusco Pike
II
Folly summer house. Late C18 for George Thompson. Red sandstone rubble walls
with flush quoins, under granduated greenslate roof with stone hips. Small
square single-cell building. Stone-surround doorway; plain reveals on returns;
joinery missing from openings. Interior has a small rear fireplace but
otherwise without features. Probably used as a shepherd's bothy in the C19. On
a high vantage point and a prominent landscape feature. Mentioned in
W. Hutchinson, History of Cumberland, 1794, vol. I, p.476. Derelict and
unoccupied at the time of survey.
Listing NGR: NY4645428575
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