Crosby Lodge

STANWIX RURAL HIGH CROSBY NY 45 NE 6/70 Crosby Lodge

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Hotel and restaurant, formerly house. 1807-10, possibly by Peter Nicholson and William Reid, for David Kennedy of Carlisle, with mid-C19 and C20 additions. English garden wall bond brickwork, tower of coursed red sandstone rubble walls, stone dressings, roof hidden by parapets. Garden front 2 storeys, 3 bays, flanked by two 3 storey, single bay, towers, added in mid-C19, with further C20 extensions to left and right, Central segmental 2 storey bay-window with 5 rounded gauged-brick arches (altered mid-C19), central niche above flanked by 2 stone surround flat-headed windows, all casement with margin glazing bars to ground floor. Flanked by 2 recessed bays, with cross-mullioned windows to ground floor and double windows above, stone surrounds. This with flanking single storey wings comprised the original house, but now has flanking stone and brick towers with similar windows and castellated parapet added to the walls and towers. C20 single storey, 2 bay extension to left, in brick and in keeping with the rest of the building. 2 storey single bay extension to right of C20 brick with castellated parapet, extends round to entrance front. Entrance front has stepped brick porch with moulded gauged-brick surround, squared brick pilasters supporting wrought-iron lamp bracket and open brick parapet. Windows on ground floor have chamfered stone surrounds and hood-moulds. Ashlar quoins, castellated brick parapet, brick chimney stacks. Arched stable entrance to right. Listing does not include out-buildings. Documents relating to the . building of the house are in the County Record Office, Carlisle (Kennedy Papers).

Listing NGR: NY4545959569