Kentdale Nursing Home
KENTDALE NURSING HOME, 8, THORNY HILLS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1145640
- Date first listed:
- 24-Apr-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Kentdale Nursing Home
- Statutory Address:
- KENTDALE NURSING HOME, 8, THORNY HILLS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1145640
- Date first listed:
- 24-Apr-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Kentdale Nursing Home
- Statutory Address 1:
- KENTDALE NURSING HOME, 8, THORNY HILLS
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- KENTDALE NURSING HOME, 8, THORNY HILLS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kendal
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 52026 92799
Details
SD 5292 NW KENDAL THORNY HILLS
9/171 No 8 (Kentdale Nursing home)
24-4-51
G.V. II
House; c1823, probably by Francis and George Webster. Ashlar with corner pilasters; 1st floor sill and eaves bands. Moulded cast-iron gutter. Hipped, graduated slate roof with deeply projecting dentilled eaves; corniced stone end chimneys. Symmetrical; 2 storeys, 3 bays (central one set forward) with single-storey arch, set back on either side, linking building to neighbouring properties. Recessed, part-glazed, central door and decorative fanlight up steps in pedimented architrave; tall tripartite sash in corniced surround to either side, each fronted by balcony (supported on low cross-walls) with ornamental iron balustrade. 3 sashes in corniced architraves above, with consoles to central one. Ornate cast-iron balcony to window on ground floor south return.
Listing NGR: SD5202692799
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 75516
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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