ASH MEADOW

ASH MEADOW, THE PROMENADE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1335741
Date first listed:: 02-Dec-1991
List Entry Name:: ASH MEADOW
Statutory Address:: ASH MEADOW, THE PROMENADE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1335741
Date first listed:: 02-Dec-1991
List Entry Name:: ASH MEADOW
Statutory Address 1:: ASH MEADOW, THE PROMENADE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: ASH MEADOW, THE PROMENADE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Arnside
National Grid Reference:: SD 45320 78563

Details

The following item shall be added:

SD 47 NE ARNSIDE THE PROMENADE (south west side)

454-0/7/1000 Ash Meadow

II

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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Legacy System number:: 76634
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.