Blackwell

Blackwell is a large house in the English Lake District, designed in the Arts and Crafts style by Baillie Scott. It was built in 1898-1900 as a holiday home for Sir Edward Holt, a wealthy Manchester brewer. The house has survived with almost all its original decorative features intact and is listed Grade I as an outstanding example of British domestic architecture. Blackwell offers a perfectly preserved snapshot of early 20th-century living, with original features, furniture, and objects by leading Arts and Crafts designers and studios. The house also features a rare Hessian wall-hanging, leaf-shaped door handles, curious window catches, spectacular plasterwork, stained glass, and carved wooden panelling. The gardens were designed by Thomas Mawson in a series of terraces, with flowers and herbs bordering the terraces, which form sun traps on the south side of the house