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Flass, also called Flass House, is a large Grade II * listed house near the village of Maulds Meaburn, Cumbria, England. It was built in the 19th century in the Palladian style by tea and opium traders Lancelot and Wilkinson Dent of Dent & Co. It remained in the hands of the Dent family until 1972, when it was sold to Frank Welsh. It was sold again in 1982 to solicitor Malcolm Whiteside, who temporarily ran the property as a care home. In 2012, it was discovered that a criminal gang had tricked an absentee landlord and used the property for the cultivation of cannabis. ==Architecture== Flass is set in a 15-acre estate in the Eden Valley, near the village of Maulds Meaburn.〔 The house is in Palladian〔 or Italianate style. It is built in limestone that is partly rendered, and all is whitewashed; the roofs are slated. The house has an asymmetrical plan, and is in two storeys with attics. There is a string course between the storeys. The west (garden) front of the main part of the house is symmetrical, and in four bays. The lower storeys of the outer bays project forward, have flat roofs, and contain a three-light window on the front and French windows on the sides. Above each of the projecting bays is another three-light window, over which is a cornice and a small Diocletian window in a pedimented gable, this giving the semblance of a Venetian window. In the central two bays are casement windows. At the top of the house is a dentilled cornice and projecting eaves. The east front contains a Doric porte-cochère, and to the left of this is a three-storey tower. The remainder of the house is two-story with attics.〔〔 On 6 February 1963, the building was designated as a Grade II * listed building.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Flass」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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