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Esthwaite Lodge is a 19th-century house in Hawkshead, Cumbria, England; it is a Grade II listed building.

The house was commissioned by Thomas Alcock Beck, a local resident and antiquarian. He employed Kendal-based architect George Webster to design a property for him.[1]

Webster's design was a stuccoed villa of two storeys and three bays with a slate hipped roof. Completed in 1821 the house is in the Neoclassical Greek Revival style a Doric porch was added.[1][2]

Beck died in 1846 but his widow and his descendants continued to live in the house until the early 20th century.[3][4] The 1911 census for England, however, records the property as being unoccupied.[5]

Ownership of the house passed to the Brocklebank family who leased the house to a number of tenants.[6] One of these, between 1929 and 1932 was the novelist Francis Brett Young until he decided that the weather was too wet for him.[7][8]

With the outbreak of the Second World War the house was used for accommodating volunteers involved with the Hawkshead Afforestation Scheme and later members of the Women's Land Army.[9]

In 1942 the house was purchased by Youth Hostels Association (England & Wales) and remains in use as a youth hostel.[10][11]

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