Dickens House is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1967. Former inn, house.

Dickens House

WRENN ID: sleeping-balcony-umber
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Lake District National Park
Country: England
Date first listed: 11 April 1967
Type: Former inn, house
Source: Historic England listing

Description

NY 33 NW CALDBECK Hesket Newmarket

13/81 Dickens House

11.4.67 II

Formerly the Queen's Head Inn now private house. Early C19. Coursed limestone rubble with V-jointed painted quoins and square stone eaves brackets. Hipped graduated greenslate roof with cement rendered chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 2 bays. 6-panel door in painted chamfered surround and similar doorway to left. Sash windows, with glazing bars on upper floor, all in painted chamfered surrounds. Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins stayed here on a visit to the Lake District in the 1850's.

Listing NGR: NY3404238648

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