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| Sand Aire House, Kendal | |||
| Sand Aire House | |||
| Street:- | Stramongate | ||
| locality:- | Kendal | ||
| civil parish:- | Kendal (formerly Westmorland) | ||
| county:- | Cumbria | ||
| locality type:- | buildings | ||
| coordinates:- | SD51819288 | ||
| 1Km square:- | SD5192 | ||
| 10Km square:- | SD59 | ||
| references:- | Listed Buildings 2010 |
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 BZP82.jpg (taken 10.11.2013)  BZP79.jpg (taken 10.11.2013) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 38 8) placename:- Sand Area House |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Sand Aires House |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "SAND AIRES HOUSE / / STRAMONGATE / KENDAL / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75493 / SD5180792872" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "House, now offices. Original building 1827, attributed to George Webster, for Daniel Harrison. Became headquarters of Provincial Insurance in 1919; main Stramongate elevation 1935 extension, in facsimile, by Bradshaw Gass, &Hope of Bolton. Tooled ashlar with corner pilasters rising from plinth; 1st floor sill band, 2nd floor lintel band, and cornice. Hipped, graduated slate roofs with deeply overhanging modillioned eaves. Corniced stone mid and end chimneys. 3 storeys. Original house, now west return (facing New Road), 5 bays (3:2): Doric porch in antis, with panelled door in glazed surround, to left-hand block; sash to either side and 3 sashes to each upper floor. 2 sashes to each floor in right-hand block. Stramongate frontage 10 bays (2:6:2), symmetrical except for offset Doric porch with SAND AIRES HOUSE on frieze. 2 right-hand bays formed north return to original house: 2 sashes to each floor. All sashes with glazing bars in recessed surrounds (semicircular-headed to ground floor). Single-storey wing projecting to rear has canted end; 5 sashes, all in recessed, semicircular-headed, surrounds." |
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 BZP81.jpg Detail. (taken 10.11.2013)  BZP80.jpg Porch on New Road. (taken 10.11.2013)  BZP83.jpg Porch on Stramongate. (taken 10.11.2013) |
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