Nos 22-28 With Entrance to Yard 30
22-28, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1311878
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 22-28 With Entrance to Yard 30
- Statutory Address:
- 22-28, MARKET PLACE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1311878
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 22-28 With Entrance to Yard 30
- Statutory Address 1:
- 22-28, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address 2:
- ENTRANCE TO YARD 30, MARKET PLACE
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:
- 22-28, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- ENTRANCE TO YARD 30, MARKET PLACE
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:
- SD5158392817
Details
SD 5192 NE
8/104
14-4-69
KENDAL
MARKET PLACE
(North side)
Nos 22, 24, 26, & 28
with entrance to
Yard 30
G.V.
II
Shops with Working Men's Institute above. C17, largely rebuilt c1760 for Thomas
Ashburner as the New Play House; used as first Wesleyan Meeting House in Kendal
in late C18/early C19. Bought by Trustees of Working Men's Institute in 1843
and re-fronted for them in 1865 by Thompson & Webster. Restored 1979. Incised
stucco with cavetto eaves. Graduated slate roof with rendered chimney to east
end. 3 storeys, 4 bays. Recessed, arcaded C20 shop front. Stone steps with
wrought-iron handrail up to 1st floor glazed wooden lean-to porch over garage on
left. Panelled door to no 28 opens off north side of passage leading to Yard
30, paralleling recessed shop front on right. 3 sashes to 1st floor and 4
above, all with glazing bars. Rectangular frame between upper floors carries
large inscription: WORKING MEN'S INSTITUTE.
Listing NGR: SD5158392817
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 75446
- 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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