Additions “Cleve How” Windermere

Additions to "Cleeve How," Windermere —Extensive additions and alterations to Cleeve How, Windermere, for Mr. A. R. Sladen, have just been completed. These include new billiard-room with large ingle nook and alcove, lit by large windows at the end and a lantern light. The room has a panelled dado in fumigated oak, and the arches to the ingle nook and alcove are panelled, having enriched pilasters, &c., in the same material. The whole of the south front has been re-cast, including a new library, &c. This room has been fitted up in a similar manner to the billiard-room. The terra-cotta windows have been removed and new freestone windows inserted. The house is now lit by the electric light, the power being obtained from a 4$ h.-p. Crossley gas-engine. Messrs. Shrigley & Hunt, of Lancaster, designed and made the large end windows for the billiard-room, introducing various games in the different lights; they also supplied the rest of the lead lights for lantern, staircase, corridors, &c., &c. The heating has been done by Messrs. Seward & Co., of Lancaster, the decorations and clay pieces by Messrs. Goodall, of Manchester, the rest of the work having been done by local workmen from the designs and under the superintendence of Mr. Robert Walker, architect, of Windermere. [Builder 11 March 1893 page 200].

Reference           Builder 11 March 1893 page 200