Moor Crag (sometimes Moorcrag) is a Grade I
listed
Listed may refer to:
* Listed, Bornholm, a fishing village on the Danish island of Bornholm
* Listed (MMM program), a television show on MuchMoreMusic
* Endangered species in biology
* Listed building, in architecture, designation of a historicall ...
house near
Bowness-on-Windermere
Bowness-on-Windermere is a town in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria, England. It lies next to Windermere lake and the town of Windermere to the north east with which it forms the civil parish of Windermere and Bowness. The town was hist ...
in
South Lakeland,
Cumbria
Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England, bordering Scotland. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local government, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. C ...
, England, overlooking
Windermere
Windermere (sometimes tautologically called Windermere Lake to distinguish it from the nearby town of Windermere) is the largest natural lake in England. More than 11 miles (18 km) in length, and almost 1 mile (1.5 km) at its wides ...
. It lies in the north of the parish of
Cartmel Fell. It was designed by
C. F. A. Voysey in 1898-1899 as a holiday home for J. W.Buckley of
Altrincham
Altrincham ( , locally ) is a market town in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, south of the River Mersey. It is southwest of Manchester city centre, southwest of Sale and east of Warrington. At the 2011 Census, it had a population ...
.
Duncan Simpson
Duncan Menzies Soutar Simpson (23 December 1927 - 5 December 2017) was a Scottish pilot, and the former chief test pilot of Hawker Siddeley in the 1970s. He flew the first production Hawker Siddeley Harrier, Harrier aircraft in December 1967, and ...
in his 1979 work ''C.F.A. Voysey: an architect of individuality'' describes Moor Crag as "The single most important house designed by Voysey".
See also
*
Grade I listed buildings in Cumbria
There are over 9000 Grade I listed buildings in England. This page is a list of these buildings in the county of Cumbria, sub-divided by district.
Allerdale
Barrow-in-Furness
Carlisle
...
*
Listed buildings in Cartmel Fell
References
External links
* ''Two photographs of Moor Crag''
Grade I listed houses
Grade I listed buildings in Cumbria
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