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placename:- Brewery, The
parish Kendal parish, once in Westmorland
county:- Cumbria
building/s
coordinates:- SD51469238
10Km square:- SD59
References Listed Buildings 2010

1Km square SD5192

database:- Listed Buildings 2010

Listed Buildings 2010

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THE BREWERY / 118 / HIGHGATE / KENDAL / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75403 / SD5146892385
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Town/Dower House; early C18, probably for Daniel Wilson of Dallam Tower and his wife, Elizabeth Crowle (their impaled arms appear on lead rainwater head). Converted internally for use as offices in 1864. Empty at time of survey (April 1984). Wet-dashed rubble on hammer-dressed plinth. Eaves cornice carried on dentils. Graduated slate roof; rendered end chimneys. 3 storeys, 3 bays. Stone steps up to central panelled door and traceried fanlight, in pedimented doorcase, which is a later insertion/relocation (not shown on C19 photograph); segment-headed coach entrance in stone surround on left, sash on right. 3 sashes to each floor above; single sash to ground and 1st floors on north return. All sashes with glazing bars, some original (wide). Interior: Wide, cut-string, oak staircase, with half-landings, has turned balusters, spiral curtails, and ramped handrails. Surviving panelling and fireplaces are probably not original.

placename:- Brewery, The
district:- South Lakeland
listed building
coordinates:- SD51469238
date:- 2010
period:- 2010s

database:- Listed Buildings 2010

Listed Buildings 2010

courtesy of English Heritage
DRINKING FOUNTAIN IN GROUNDS OF BREWERY ARTS CENTRE TO SOUTH WEST OF NO 118 / / HIGHGATE / KENDAL / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75404 / SD5143092370
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Drinking fountain, now disused. Late C19. Moved to present site from outside Windermere railway station in late C20. Base has moulded limestone plinth and stepped cornice with snecked slate infill to each face between rough- dressed, margined, limestone quoins. Octagonal in plan, c7 ft high, surmounted by cast-iron lamp c7 ft high. Alternate faces have carved limestone lion's-head spouts with projecting marble bowls underneath and a small, semicircular aperture in the plinth; cornice has incised 'stencil' decoration. Lamp has foliate consoles to patterned octagonal base; fluted column carries tapered lantern with finial to pyramidal top.
district:- South Lakeland
listed building -- drinking fountain
coordinates:- SD51439237
date:- 2010
period:- 2010s

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