Sand Aire House
Sand Aire House, Stramongate, Kendal
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1146488
- Date first listed:
- 24-Apr-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Sand Aire House
- Statutory Address:
- Sand Aire House, Stramongate, Kendal
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1146488
- Date first listed:
- 24-Apr-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Sand Aire House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Sand Aire House, Stramongate, Kendal
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:
- Sand Aire House, Stramongate, Kendal
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 51807 92872
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17/02/2020
SD 5192 NE
8/147
KENDAL
STRAMONGATE (south side)
Sand Aire House
(formerly listed as Sand Aires House)
24-4-51
GV
II
House, now offices. Original building 1827, attributed to George Webster, for Daniel Harrison. Became headquarters of Provincial Insurance in 1919; main Stramongate elevation 1935 extension, in facsimile, by Bradshaw Gass, & Hope of Bolton. Tooled ashlar with corner pilasters rising from plinth; first floor sill band, second floor lintel band, and cornice. Hipped, graduated slate roofs with deeply overhanging modillioned eaves. Corniced stone mid and end chimneys. Three storeys.
Original house, now west return (facing New Road), five bays (3:2): Doric porch in antis, with panelled door in glazed surround, to left-hand block; sash to either side and three sashes to each upper floor. Two sashes to each floor in right-hand block. Stramongate frontage ten bays (2:6:2), symmetrical except for offset Doric porch with SAND AIRE HOUSE on frieze. Two right-hand bays formed north return to original house: two sashes to each floor. All sashes with glazing bars in recessed surrounds (semicircular-headed to ground floor). Single-storey wing projecting to rear has canted end; five sashes, all in recessed, semicircular-headed, surrounds.
Listing NGR: SD5180792872
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 75493
- 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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