Summer House On Top Of Flusco Pike is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1986. Folly.

Summer House On Top Of Flusco Pike

WRENN ID
guardian-newel-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Country
England
Date first listed
24 October 1986
Type
Folly
Source
Historic England listing

Description

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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