Hampsfield House

Hampsfield House is a country house located to the west of the village of Lindale, Cumbria, England. It was built between 1880 and 1882, and designed by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin. The house cost about £7,000 (equivalent to £710,000 in 2019).[1] It was built for Sir John Tomlinson Hibbert, Member of Parliament for Oldham, who was Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board under Gladstone in 1871–74, and again in 1880–83. The house was featured and illustrated in the British Architect in 1881.[2]

See also

List of non-ecclesiastical works by Paley and Austin

References

UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved February 2, 2020.
Brandwood, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012), The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin, Swindon: English Heritage, pp. 131–132, 167, 232, ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8

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