Brantwood

"Any place opposite Coniston Old Man must be beautiful", wrote Ruskin when in 1871 he bought Brantwood on the shores of Coniston Water without even seeing it. Across the lake, the view of the Coniston Fells from the turret room he built onto his bedroom must have delighted him, for Ruskin, the artist, writer and critic, lived here until his death in 1900. Ruskin's drawings and watercolours are on display. Tearoom.
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