Former Romney House Hotel
Romney House, 26, Milnthorpe Road, Kendal, LA9 5AU
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318998
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Former Romney House Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- Romney House, 26, Milnthorpe Road, Kendal, LA9 5AU
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318998
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Former Romney House Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- Romney House, 26, Milnthorpe Road, Kendal, LA9 5AU
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:
- Romney House, 26, Milnthorpe Road, Kendal, LA9 5AU
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:
- SD5162691840
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16 September 2025 to amend the name and address and description due to a change in building use, and reformat the text to current standards
SD 59 SW
2/121
KENDAL
MILNTHORPE ROAD (west side)
No 26, Romney House
Former Romney House Hotel
(Formerly listed as No 26 (Romney House Hotel) MILNTHORPE ROAD)
14-4-69
II
House, hotel at time of listing; early/mid C18. Coursed rubble, rendered to front, with rusticated corner pilasters on plinth; dentilled eaves cornice. Graduated slate roof with stone end chimneys. Three storeys, three bays. Part-glazed door and rectangular fanlight in surround with cornice carried on tapered pilasters. Narrow sash to right and two sashes to left; three sashes to each floor above. Sign hangs from wrought-iron bracket projecting above door. Late C19 painted, circular, cast-iron plaque (between ground and first floors) carries an inscription in raised sans serif lettering: HERE LIVED FOR A TIME AND DIED GEORGE ROMNEY PORTRAIT PAINTER *BORN AT DALTON IN FURNESS 1734* DIED 1802.
Listing NGR: SD5162691840
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 75463
- 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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