Description

SD 5192 SE KENDAL KIRKLAND
(Off East side)

11/75 Abbot Hall Art
Gallery (previously
24-4-51 listed as Abbot Hall)

G.V. I

Hall, now Art Gallery. 1759, almost certainly by John Carr of York, for Colonel
George Wilson. Coursed, squared rubble with quoins on plinth. Band between
ground floor and cellars; modillioned eaves cornice with parapet. Main roofs
not visible. Mostly 2 storeys with cellars. Symmetrical east elevation, 7 bays
overall. Curved stone steps (with spiral curtails to C20 wrought-iron
handrails) up to central part-glazed door and interlaced fanlight, with small
window to either side, in architrave with projecting keystone and moulded
imposts; sash, in architrave with splayed feet on bracketed sill, above.
Full-height canted bay window, with sashes, to either side; latticework grilles
to cellar. Lower bay set back on either side of central block has Venetian
ground floor window; sill band to tripartite sash above. Single-storey
gabled bay adjoining each end of main building has 2 semicircular-headed sashes
in recesses with blocked oval opening in open pediment above (part-glazed door
replaces one sash in left-hand end bay). All sashes with glazing bars in stone
surrounds. Decorative rainwater heads to rear. Interior: Entrance hall
divided by 2 Roman Doric columns, with responds. Decorative plaster cornices to
ground floor. Main ground floor front rooms have plaster frames to walls, and
corniced fireplaces, with applied Baroque foliate decoration. Main stair to
rear left is curved at top and bottom with spiral curtail; cut string with
turned balusters and moulded handrail. Panelled doors (some in pedimented
doorcases) and shutters throughout.

Listing NGR: SD5170992188

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Abbot Hall Art Gallery at Wikipedia
• Abbot Hall Art Gallery official website
• Wikidata Q2820837

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