button to main menu  Old Cumbria Gazetteer
Keswick: Maysons
Maysons
Street:-   Lake Road
locality:-   Keswick
civil parish:-   Keswick (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   fancy goods shop
locality type:-   shop
locality type:-   photographic studio (ex) 
coordinates:-   NY26642325
1Km square:-   NY2623
10Km square:-   NY22


photograph
BRM92.jpg (taken 23.9.2009)  
photograph
BRM93.jpg (taken 23.9.2009)  

evidence:-   old advertisement:- 
item:-  
source data:-   Advertisement, for Maysons, photographers, Keswick, published by Cumberland Motor Services, Tangier Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, about 1926.
image  click to enlarge
CS1A05.jpg
item:-  JandMN : 1022.17
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"FORMERLY MAYSON'S SHOP / 33 / LAKE ROAD / KESWICK / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 71874 / NY2665023241"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Probably c1900. Shop with glazed frontage to studio or workshop on upper storey (of equal height to ground floor). Rudimentarily commercial classical in style. 3 bays of modified pilasters; 3-light sash windows in each bay of upper storey. Recessed entrance in middle bay of ground floor, flanked by 2-light show windows. Wide-spaced eaves brackets. Truncated pyramidal roof, slated with ridge decoration and finals. One bay single-storey extention to left and 3-bay one to right, former with pedimental panel above, latter with 3-panel parapet. Of value for unaltered condition, especially of interior with showcase counter and chamfered wooden coloumns."

button to lakes menu  Lakes Guides menu.