FORMER PUBLIC WASH HOUSE AND BATHS WITH ADJOINING PUBLIC CONVENIENCE

WETHERSPOONS, 6, ALL HALLOWS LANE, LA9 4JH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1312303
Date first listed:: 30-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:: FORMER PUBLIC WASH HOUSE AND BATHS WITH ADJOINING PUBLIC CONVENIENCE
Statutory Address:: WETHERSPOONS, 6, ALL HALLOWS LANE, LA9 4JH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1312303
Date first listed:: 30-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:: FORMER PUBLIC WASH HOUSE AND BATHS WITH ADJOINING PUBLIC CONVENIENCE
Statutory Address 1:: WETHERSPOONS, 6, ALL HALLOWS LANE, LA9 4JH

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: WETHERSPOONS, 6, ALL HALLOWS LANE, LA9 4JH

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 51409 92608

Details

This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14/03/2017

SD 5192 NW, 7/5

KENDAL, ALL HALLOWS LANE (South side), Former public wash-house and baths with adjoining public convenience

(Formerly listed as: Public wash-house and baths with adjoining public convenience)

II

Former public wash-houses and baths. 1864 by Miles Thompson. Swimming bath added when Corporation took over in 1884; single-storey stone-built public convenience added at east end probably at same time. Built on sloping site with same eaves height throughout. Snecked rubble on plinth of rough-dressed blocks with similar pilaster to west end. Gabled entrance block has hammer-dressed plinth, end pilasters, and bands. Graduated slate roofs; blocking course and dentils to wings, dormer to each side of entrance block roof. Tall, tapered, octagonal boiler chimney to north-east corner; other stacks to ridge. All chimneys corniced stone. Symmetrical 3-bay central entrance block has part-glazed door, with radiating fanlight, and sash to either side above with blank panel between; all openings in semicircular-headed surrounds. Five paired windows to each wing; door has replaced 6th window to extreme right. Left-hand wing has lower storey with door and four windows, all segment-headed. Drinking fountain in niche with moulded sill to extreme left.

Provision of this public facility was a local election issue in early 1860s; financed by public subscription. 1st public building erected in Kendal for public institution.

Listing NGR: SD5140992608

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Legacy System number:: 75345
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.