Friends Meeting House
FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, STRAMONGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1319001
- Date first listed:
- 24-Apr-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Friends Meeting House
- Statutory Address:
- FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, STRAMONGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1319001
- Date first listed:
- 24-Apr-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Friends Meeting House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, STRAMONGATE
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:
- FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, STRAMONGATE
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 51778 92808
Details
SD 5192 NE KENDAL STRAMONGATE (Off South side)
8/146 Friends' Meeting 24-4-51 House
G.V. II*
Meeting House. 1816 (built partly on site of late C17 Meeting House) by Francis Webster. Altered internally in 1934, extended eastward in 1936. Hammer-dressed limestone blocks on plinth; eaves cornice and blocking course. Graduated slate roofs with parallel ridges; stone end chimneys. 2 storeys, 5 bays. Stramongate elevation: Porch on left has lunette immediately above and 2 semicircular-headed sashes to right; three 1st floor windows are 1934 insertions. New Street elevation: Porch on right has lunette immediately above and 4 semicircular-headed sashes to left; five lst floor sashes. Tall tripartite sash to west return. Both porches have cornices and blocking courses, with panelled inner double doors. All windows have glazing bars. Interior: originally 2 rooms separated by full-height timber partition of 4 elliptical-headed arches carried between panelled pilasters; the arcade was infilled by movable, panelled shutters which were permanently fixed in place when an upper (classroom) floor was inserted on the north side in 1934. Cast-iron columns support the gallery, with turned balusters, carried around 2 sides of the south room.
Listing NGR: SD5177892808
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 75492
- 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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