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Ewanrigg Hall


  • Vicinity: Ewanrigg
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building

Ewanrigg Hall is a Grade II English Listed Building in Maryport, Cumbria, United Kingdom. - AsNotedIn


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1368/00/00 Ewanrigg Hall is established.
1640/00/00 Mr Ewan Christian hath built a good house out of the shell of an old tower (probably a pele).
1753/00/00 John Christian Home Ewanrigg Hall is rebuilt as a stone manor house in the late 18th century (probably 1753).
1859/00/00 Long time owner, Henry Taubmen Christian, dies in 1859. Unfortunately, his widow soon descends into madness and dies at Dunston Lodge Lunatic Asylum (lost) in Gateshead.
1897/00/00 Mr JR Twentyman, a wealthy tea trader who lives in Shanghai, buys Ewanrigg Hall.
1903/00/00 Twentyman razes most of the manor house, pulling down the two-story central block and remodeling the west wing into a farmhouse.
2015/08/00 Fire destroys the empty Ewanrigg farmhouse.

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Particulars for Ewanrigg Hall:
Sight Category Building
Criteria Person
Owner Private
Disposition Ruin
Historic Use Single dwelling

Data
English National Heritage List: 1144672


Creative Works »

WorkTypeAsNotedInCreatorNote
The Woman in White Novel Wilkie Collins Ewanrigg Hall may have been Wilkie Collins' inspiration for Limmeridge House in "The Woman in White".

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