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| Castle Dairy, Kendal | ||
| Castle Dairy | ||
| Castle Dowery | ||
| Street:- | Wildman Street | |
| locality:- | Kendal | |
| civil parish:- | Kendal (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| coordinates:- | SD51939305 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD5193 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD59 | |
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| evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s placename:- Castle Dairy item:- steps |
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| source data:- | Photograph, Castle Dairy, Kendal, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside,
Westmorland, 1894. click to enlargeHB0147.jpg Notice the sign for 'G. WHITWELL. JOINER WHEELWRIGHT'. Vol.2 no.147 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. ms at bottom:- "147. Castle Dairy. Kendal. K." item:- Armitt Library : 1958.3166.41 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s placename:- Castle Dairy |
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| source data:- | Photograph, Castle Dairy, Kendal, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside,
Westmorland, 1894. click to enlargeHB0148.jpg The shop is 'WARD'. Vol.2 no.148 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. ms at bottom:- "148. Castle Dairy. Kendal. K." item:- Armitt Library : 1958.3166.42 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Harper 1907 |
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| source data:- | HP01p105.txt Page 105:- "..."  click to enlargeHP0107.jpg "CASTLE DAIRY." "..." HP01p106.txt Page 106:- "... old Kendal is only to be pictured in that fine rugged building, the Castle Dairy, in Wildman Street. It is supposed to have been the dairy of the old castle, and still contains a few of the many ancient and curious relics found in old cupboards and secret places in its immensely thick walls, together with some fragments of stained glass bearing the arms of the Stanleys, Earls of Derby. But the curious genealogy of the Saxon kings, and the old illuminated Roman mass-book, have been removed to the Public Library." item:- JandMN : 1055.8 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Burrow 1920s placename:- |
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| source data:- | Road book, strip maps with parts in Westmorland, Cumberland etc,
irregular scales about 1.5 miles to 1 inch, by E J Burrow and
Co, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 1920s. "... Of its [Kendal's] ancient houses the most curious is one in Wildman Street called the 'Castle Dairy.' This is typical of what most houses in Kendal were formerly like - built with an eye on the need for defence. Its walls are of great thickness and the house is provided with hiding places. ..." |
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| evidence:- | site plan:- Historical Monuments 1936 placename:- Castle Dairy |
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| source data:- | Site plan, uncoloured lithograph, Castle Dairy, Kendal, Westmorland, scale about 1
to 290, published by Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, London, 1936. click to enlargeHMW079.jpg On p.125 of the Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland. printed, upper right "CASTLE DAIRY - KENDAL" RCHME no. Wmd, Kendal 10 item:- Armitt Library : A745.79 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Castle Dairy |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "CASTLE DAIRY / / WILDMAND STREET / KENDAL / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / I / 75521 / SD5193593066" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Farmhouse; the name implies an association with Kendal Castle but 'Dairy' may be a corruption of 'Dowry'. Now a restaurant. Probably C14; extensively remodelled c1560 for Anthony Garnett (numerous dated features have survived). Later additions and alterations. Coursed rubble with quoins. Graduated stone-flag roofs; stone chimneys (corbelled to west wing and projecting to east wing). Central Hall with 2-storey cross-wing to either end. For detailed description (including exceptionally well-preserved interior) see R.C.H.M. Westmorland (1936), with the following amendments: multi-light windows, to Hall front and to west wing lst floor, were renewed in 1983/4 (all in facsimile except for heads carved on label-stops to Hall window). On the interior, 2 more original doorways (with pointed heads) have been opened up on the left-hand side of the cross-passage; the ground floor, east wing, fireplace and some of the original windows have also been unblocked. The extension to the rear of the west wing has been demolished." |
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| hearsay:- |
Built 1564. |
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