Ash Meadow

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SD 47 NE ARNSIDE THE PROMENADE (south west side)

454-0/7/1000 Ash Meadow

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House, recently a school but now unoccupied. c.1815-20, with some earlier fabric; altered. Painted stucco and roughcast render, probably on limestone rubble, with Welsh slate roofs. Irregular plan formed by 3 parallel ranges: a rectangular double-depth main range aligned approximately east-west, built in front of the older portion and linked to it by a shorter range and glazed porch. Two storeys with cellars to the main range, and a long symmetrical 3-window north front with a plinth, a verandah carried round both sides, and wooden modillioned eaves; unhorned sashed windows on both floors, all with exposed boxes, those at ground floor without glazing bars and those above 12-paned; slated verandah canopy carried on slender cast iron columns each with a simple ladder like trellis in front of it ( forming 7 bays to the front, 7 to the left and 6 to the right ). Four symmetrically disposed low lateral chimney stacks with cornices. The left side, which is the entrance front, has a central re- entrant bridged by a glazed roof, with a glazed screen and doorway to the porch thus formed, and an inner doorway with a moulded architrave, cornice and consoles and door with 6 glazed panels; the flanking gables of the front and rear ranges have windows mostly like those at the front, but including a French window to the main range; and projected from the rear corner to the rear range is an outbuilding with mono-pitched roof. The right-hand return wall has 3 gables 2:1:1 windows, the 1st and 3rd at ground floor being French windows with horizontal glazing bars and all the others unhorned 12-pane sashes. All windows on both floors of the front range have internal shutters. The rear range, which may be of earlier C18 origin, has a large ridge chimney stack offset left of centre. INTERIOR: rear range altered, but front range retains many early C19 features including central entrance hall containing open-well staircase with delicate curvilinear cast-iron balusters and ramped mahogany handrail wreathed at the foot, illuminated by oval skylight with stained glass margin panes; original moulded plaster cornices in 3 front rooms, all different; and built-in office furnishings in the centre of these rooms, including a broken-pedimented bookcase, disguised iron cupboards and safes flanking the doorway, and a semi-circular arched cast iron fireplace with panelled surround. HISTORY: occupied by a series of wealthy land owners until c1918, subsequently used as a school and recently as Lakeland Training Centre.

Listing NGR: SD4532078563

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