Description

CAVENDISH PLACE
1.
861
SD 62 NE Griffin Lodge
5/102
II
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House, now headquarters of Museums. Area Council. Early/mid C19 with later additions.
Red brick with stone dressings, slate roof hipped to left and prominent ridge and
end stacks. Main block 2 storeys, 3 window range. Stone plinth. Corner pilasters
with stone bases and capitals. Stone frieze and eaves cornice. Central porch with
round-headed entrance containing double panelled doors and over light, flanked by
small round-headed windows. Corner pilasters, frieze and cornice of stone. Sash
windows with stone architraves. Raised stone band at first floor cill level. Projecting
bay to ground floor right an addition, with tripartite sash window. Later wings
to right and to rear. Richly decorated interior includes staircase with elaborate
cast-iron balusters beneath a glaced lantern, sumptuous plaster work, especially
to cornices, and moulded chimney pieces (one in Gothic style) to ground floor. Service
wing retains 2 kitchen ranges - one made by W and K Dewhurst of Blackburn, the other
an "Eagle" patent range with ventilating canopy. Home of Thomas Dugdale, industrialist.

Listing NGR: SD6686627198

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26517196

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Recommended Books

• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House