Building Name

“Fawe Park” Keswick Derwentwater

Date
1856 - 1858
District/Town
Derwntwater, Keswick
County/Country
Cumbria, England
Client
James Spencer Bell MP
Work
New build

Extension to existing house of 1850 following the marriage of Spencer Bell. The nursery wing added later, is said to be designed by Bell himself. This house, overlooking Derwentwater, Keswick, was later used by Beatrix Potter’s family as a holiday home, as was Lingholm next to it.

Perspective dated 1856 exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1857

Reference           Colin Cunningham, Prudence Waterhouse : Alfred Waterhouse, 1830-1905: Biography of a Practice; 1992, Page 107