Eccle Riggs

Eccle Riggs is a English [country houses|country house] located on Eccle Riggs, a ridge of land about to the south of Broughton-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. It was built in 1865 in Tudor style for Viscount R. A. [Cross, 1st Viscount Cross|Richard Assheton Cross], Home Secretary between 1874 and 1880 and 1885 and 1886. The house was designed by the Lancaster architect E. G. Paley. A dining-room wing was added in 1880 by the Manchester architect J. S. Crowther. It has since been used as a leisure club.