Description

SD 5192 NW KENDAL LOW FELLSIDE

(West side)
7/87 Flats A, B, C, D, & E
Grandy Nook
14-4-69 (previously listed as
nos 52, 54, & 56)

II

House(s), now subdivided into flats. 1659 date on stone panel set in gable of
rear wing; initials T. & K.S., for Thomas Sandes (founder of Sandes Hospital in
Highgate) and Katherine, his wife. 2nd panel (originally oak) above front door
of northern block: T. & I.F. 1669. Restored 1864 for John Fisher; later
additions and alterations. Slobbered rubble with wide plinth to south return.
Graduated slate roofs with gabled dormers and full-height rear wing to southern
block; stone end chimneys. Southern block: Roughly symmetrical; 2 storeys with
attics, 5 bays. 2 central C19 studded doors side by side: wooden oriel above
and 2 wood-mullioned and transomed windows to each floor on either side.
Dripstone over ground-floor windows. Northern block: Symmetrical; 2 storeys, 3
bays. Central C19 studded door under canopy on consoles; wood-mullioned and
transomed window to each floor on either side (hoodmoulds with labels to ground
floor). Door to rear wing has moulded jambs and false 4-centred head; 2 porches
added to rear of northern block. For details of dated interior features see
R.C.H.M. Westmorland (1936) p.129 items 60 and 61; strapwork frieze (dated 1666)
recorded by R.C.H.M. was not seen during listing re-survey (April 1984) and
balustrade was said to have been removed.

Listing NGR: SD5124892866

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26431409

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