1, KING STREET
1, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375004
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 1, KING STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 1, KING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375004
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 1, KING STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, KING STREET
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:
- 1, KING STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ulverston
- National Grid Reference:
- SD2856878369
Details
ULVERSTON
SD2878
626-1/3/37
20/06/72
KING STREET
(West side)
No.1
GV
II
Shop with accommodation above. c1840. Probably by George
Webster. Limestone ashlar and roughcast with slate roofs.
3 tall storeys plus attic. Occupies a corner site and has 2
principal facades, both of which are treated similarly, with 2
bays facing south towards the Market Place, and 2 bays facing
east towards King Street. On the ground floor each has ashlar
dressings and a timber shop front with a central doorway
flanked by pilasters, and a fascia. The upper storeys have
glazing bar sashes in narrow painted surrounds with projecting
sills. Below gables (which are treated as pediments with
projecting verges with plain barge-boards) is a frieze
decorated with laurel garlands. At the apex of each gable is
an ashlar chimney cap with cornice. An oculus within the south
gable lights the attic. The corner between the 2 facades is
recessed and curved, with rusticated stonework on the ground
floor.
The King Street facade has a further bay to the right, with a
tall ground-floor window, a glazing bar sash on the 2nd floor,
and a C20 tilting window with glazing bars on the 1st floor.
The roof slope carries an attic dormer and there is a chimney
to the right.
(Taylor A & Haworth J: Websters of Kendal (Exhibition
Catalogue): Kendal: 1973-: ITEM 54).
Listing NGR: SD2856878369
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 459922
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Haworth, J, Taylor, A, The Websters of Kendal, (1973)
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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