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'''Hazelwood Hall''', sometimes spelt '''Hazlewood''', is a nineteenth-century country house set in 18.5 acres of woodland and gardens in the village of Silverdale, Lancashire, England, {{convert|8.5|miles}} north of Lancaster. The building was converted into holiday flats in 2006.
==History==
A planning application in 2009 stated that the house was built "in the first half of the nineteenth century, that it is thought to have been designed by George Webster, and that "It is not listed, but is of some architectural interest".<ref name="planning_app_2009B">{{cite web |title=Hazelwood Hall, Hollins Lane, Silverdale |url=https://committeeadmin.lancaster.gov.uk/documents/s16497/Hazelwood%20Hall%20Hollins%20Lane%20Silverdale.pdf |publisher=Lancaster City Council |access-date=30 October 2022 |date=2009}}</ref>
It is in the Arnside and Silverdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).<ref name="planning_app_2009B"/> A report on the AONB notes Hazelwood as one of "six [sites in the AONB] that may be considered to be of national or international significance".<ref name="AONB_2016">{{cite web |title=What is special about Arnside & Silverdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty? |url=https://www.arnsidesilverdaleaonb.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/ASAONB-Special-Qualities-Report-FINAL-1.pdf |publisher=Arnside & Silverdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty |access-date=30 October 2022 |date=2016}}</ref> The Sustainability Appraisal Report for the AONB describes it as one of the "Historic designed landscapes" in the area which are "of exceptional interest and quality [and] compare favourably with those on English Heritage’s National Register of Parks and Gardens.<ref name="SAR_2016">{{cite web |last1=Johnson |first1=Scott |title=ARNSIDE AND SILVERDALE AONB DRAFT DEVELOPMENT PLAN DOCUMENT: Sustainability Appraisal Report |url=https://committeeadmin.lancaster.gov.uk/documents/s62217/Appendix3SAReport241016.pdf |website=Lancaster City Council |access-date=30 October 2022 |date=2016}}</ref> Much of the land around Hazelwood Hall is owned by the National Trust.<ref name="NT">{{cite web |title=Arnside and Silverdale |url=https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/arnside-and-silverdale |publisher=National Trust |access-date=30 October 2022}}</ref>
The garden was designed by Thomas Mawson and his son, Edward.<ref name="planning_app_2009B"/>
In the 1920s, the house and grounds were rented to the Carrington family, who bought it in 1945. The artist Leonora Carrington used to visit her relatives there.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Moorhead |first=Joanna |title=The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington |publisher=Virago Press |year=2019 |isbn=978-0-349-00879-0 |location=London |pages=27 |language=English}}</ref><ref name="Carrington">{{cite book | last=Carrington | first=G.W. | title=The invisible painting: My memoir of Leonora Carrington | publisher=Manchester University Press | year=2021 | isbn=978-1-5261-5392-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5UIrEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT35 | access-date=30 Oct 2022 | page=35}}</ref><ref name="van Raaij Moorhead Arcq Kusunoki 2010 p. ">{{cite book | last1=van Raaij | first1=S. | last2=Moorhead | first2=J. | last3=Arcq | first3=T. | last4=Kusunoki | first4=S.M. | author5=Pallant House Gallery | last6=Rivera | first6=A.R. | author7=Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts | title=Surreal Friends: Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo and Kati Horna | publisher=Lund Humphries | year=2010 | isbn=978-1-869827-07-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7W1IAQAAIAAJ | access-date=30 Oct 2022 | page=}}</ref>
In the 1970s, the property was a nursing home under the auspices of St. John of God.<ref name="TWG_2016">{{cite news |last1=Warren |first1=Mike |title=LETTER: St John's Hospice needs to raise more than £3 million from the local community |url=https://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/14445923.letter-st-johns-hospice-needs-to-raise-more-than-3-million-from-the-local-community |access-date=30 October 2022 |work=The Westmorland Gazette |date=29 April 2016}}</ref> It was an early provider of palliative care.<ref name="TWG_2016"/><ref name="LG_2021">{{cite news |last1=Rouncivell |first1=Gayle |title=Lancaster hospice to launch sunflower art displays across district |url=https://www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/news/people/lancaster-hospice-to-launch-sunflower-art-displays-across-district-3242279 |access-date=30 October 2022 |work=Lancaster Guardian |date=19 May 2021}}</ref><ref name="hospice_hist">{{cite web |title=History of St John's Hospice |url=https://www.sjhospice.org.uk/history |publisher=St John's Hospice |access-date=30 October 2022 |date=2016}}</ref><ref name="MBMJ_MW">{{cite journal |last1=Warren |first1=Mike |title=Reflections on 35 Years in Milnthorpe |journal=Morecambe Bay Medical Journal |url=https://mbmj.co.uk/index.php/mbmj/article/download/840/805 |access-date=30 October 2022}}</ref>
The property was used as a convent and a nursing home.<ref name="planning_app_2009B"/>
The house was turned into holiday flats in 2006.<ref name="LancsLive_2021">{{cite news |last1=Aziz |first1=Fatima |title=Your chance to own 'swanky' apartment in converted Victorian hall for just £215,000 |url=https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/your-chance-swanky-apartment-converted-22480099 |access-date=30 October 2022 |work=LancsLive |date=16 December 2021}}</ref>
In 2009, the developers applied to Lancaster City Council to remove the condition that the houses could only be used for holidays, because the company "has found it difficult to market holiday accommodation in the present difficult financial climate".<ref name="planning_app_2009A">{{cite web |title=Planning Regulatory Committee - Monday, 28th September 2009 10.30 a.m. |url=https://committeeadmin.lancaster.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?MId=4873 |publisher=Lancaster City Council |access-date=30 October 2022 |date=2009}}</ref> The application was refused.<ref name="planning_app_2009B"/><ref name="planning_app_2009A"/>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links==
* ''[https://arthive.com/leonoracarrington/works/543162~Greenhouses_in_Hazelwood_Hall Greenhouses in Hazelwood Hall]'', painting by Carrington * [https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/554604a0-332b-4b3a-97e5-554b275d2f1b Additions and alterations at Hazelwood Hall, Silverdale, Lancashire for W H Sharp. Undated] at the National Archives * [https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/50f0234e-037e-4807-b840-7c2ff3907f9f Found loose in RCPa1/35 letters and notices concerning the St. John of God's hospital at Silverdale] at the National Archives * [https://www.lancsgt.org.uk/hazelwood-hall-by-elaine-taylor Hazelwood Hall by Elaine Taylor], Lancashire Gardens Trust
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Category:Country houses in Lancashire Category:Buildings and structures in the City of Lancaster Category:Gardens in Lancashire Category:Silverdale, Lancashire