Slack House

SLACK HOUSE, WINDERMERE ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1269664
Date first listed:
02-May-1975
List Entry Name:
Slack House
Statutory Address:
SLACK HOUSE, WINDERMERE ROAD

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1269664
Date first listed:
02-May-1975
Date of most recent amendment:
12-Jul-1996
List Entry Name:
Slack House
Statutory Address 1:
SLACK HOUSE, WINDERMERE ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SLACK HOUSE, WINDERMERE ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Grange-Over-Sands
National Grid Reference:
SD4101979083

Details

GRANGE-OVER-SANDS

SD47NW
705-1/2/47
02/05/75

WINDERMERE ROAD
(West side)
Slack House
(Formerly Listed as:
WINDERMERE ROAD
The Slack)

II

House. Probably mid C19 with later C19 additions. Pebbledashed
with dressings of water-worn limestone. Slate roof. 2 storeys.
Earlier part of house of 3-window range. The 1st-floor windows
are glazing bar sashes with plain reveals, projecting sills,
and limestone lintels. On the ground floor there is a gabled
porch towards the right and paired sash windows with no
glazing bars towards the left. The open timber porch has
carved bargeboards and covers glazed double doors with margin
panes. At the right (east) there is a taller one-bay addition
which has windows with water-worn rusticated limestone
surrounds, a 1st-floor sill band and pronounced gables with
fancy bargeboarding. On the ground floor there is a casement
window and on the 1st floor a glazing bar sash. The right-hand
return wall is treated similarly, but has a timber canted bay
window on the ground floor. Chimneys to left and right of
original house and on rear wall of addition.



Listing NGR: SD4101979083

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
460557
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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