no.5783

Gatehouse Eskdale Green

1910s

View from a lawn up to a large mansion which seems to have included as many architectural features as possible. There are towers and turrets, gables and battlements and decorative finials all over. Red and grey local stone has been used to emphasise sills, mullions and lintels. The house was built in 1896 for the Rea family and became a Grade II listed building in 1967. The house and part of the grounds were sold via auction in 1949 to the Outward Bound Trust, who converted it in 1950 into their Eskdale Centre, the first of their mountain schools.