Parkside House and Parklands

PARKSIDE HOUSE AND PARKLANDS, PARKSIDE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1311853
Date first listed:
30-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:
Parkside House and Parklands
Statutory Address:
PARKSIDE HOUSE AND PARKLANDS, PARKSIDE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1311853
Date first listed:
30-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:
Parkside House and Parklands
Statutory Address 1:
PARKSIDE HOUSE AND PARKLANDS, PARKSIDE 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
PARKSIDE HOUSE AND PARKLANDS, PARKSIDE ROAD

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 53023 92061

Details

SD 59 SW (INSET) KENDAL PARKSIDE ROAD (South side)

2/129 Parkside House & Parklands

II

Large house, now subdivided. 1865 by J. Crowther. Snecked slate blocks with dressed stone quoins, plinth, strings, and detailing. Steeply-pitched graduated slate roofs with stone copings. Stone mid and end chimneys. Gothic style. 2 storeys (with attics to Parkside House). Parkside House (originally servants' quarters): 2 bays. Single-light window to each floor of left bay, multi-light window (with shouldered inner heads) to ground and 1st floors of right bay, with pointed 2-light window above. Parklands (adjoining to east): 4 bays. Porch has initialled shield (J.A. & R.R.), with motto, in gable. Pointed outer door with ornamental ironwork, glazed inner door with Gothic tracery. 2 pointed 2-light windows to right; multi-light ground floor window to left with pointed 2-light window above. East return has single-storey canted bay window; multi-light window on left has pointed 2-light window above. Oriel window and full-height canted bay to rear, both with conical roofs. Some multi-light windows have inner trefoil heads. All windows stone-mullioned. Interior of Parklands: Fireplace with joggled lintel in hall; dog-leg staircase, carried on brackets, has solid balustrades pierced with quatrefoils. Panelled doors with embattled lintels to surrounds; panelled window reveals. Decorative Gothic cornices.

Listing NGR: SD5302392061

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
75475
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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