Fred Hoyle's house

Clive Hutchby's excellent revision of Wainwright's Eastern Fells points out in the chapter on Great Dodd that this house above Dockray was the home of Fred Hoyle between 1965 and 1975. Fred Hoyle did some brilliant work on fusion in stars and how heavier elements were formed. It is called stellar nucleosynthesis. He comes up in class when I teach the development of the Big Bang theory. He had a rival theory called the Steady State which suggested that the Universe was expanding because new material was being created everywhere all the time rather than at one time in the past. I've always thought it was a logical idea based on what was known at the time but of course it couldn't survive the discovery of the Microwave Background Radiation. The dates in the Wainwright don't fully tie in with Wikipedia but make your own mind up! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hoyle