Cottages, etc. Holmrook
COTTAGES, ETC, HOLMROOK. The picturesque group of cottages, village club and reading-room, and smithy, which we illustrate, have been erected at the cost of Mr. Lutwidge, of Holmrook Hall, in the pretty village of Holmrook, in Cumberland. The village and hall stand on the banks of the River Irt, a few miles from its source, the beautiful and well-known Lake of Wastwater. The group is built on an excellent site near the centre of the village, and consists of three good and roomy cottages, a village club and reading room, and smithy, with shoeing-shed, &c. The ground-story, up to the first floor, is built of the beautiful red freestone of the country, and the upper floor of timber construction, filled in with pointed brick between timbers. The roof is covered with green Westmoreland slates. Mr Baines, of Millom, was the contractor. [Building News 30 January 1880 page 130]
Reference Building News 30 January 1880 page 130 and illustration
Holmrook is a linear along the A595 road on the west banks of the River Irt. As illustrated the group excludes the building (now the reading room) in similar style on the opposite side of the road. Although not mentioned in the text, the illustration is signed Austin and Paley, architects, Lancaster.