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Sand Aire House, Kendal
Sand Aire House
Street:-   Stramongate
locality:-   Kendal
civil parish:-   Kendal (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD51819288
1Km square:-   SD5192
10Km square:-   SD59
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


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BZP82.jpg (taken 10.11.2013)  
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BZP79.jpg (taken 10.11.2013)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 38 8) 
placename:-  Sand Area House
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
Sand Area Ho.

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Sand Aires House
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"SAND AIRES HOUSE / / STRAMONGATE / KENDAL / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75493 / SD5180792872"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"House, now offices. Original building 1827, attributed to George Webster, for Daniel Harrison. Became headquarters of Provincial Insurance in 1919; main Stramongate elevation 1935 extension, in facsimile, by Bradshaw Gass, &Hope of Bolton. Tooled ashlar with corner pilasters rising from plinth; 1st floor sill band, 2nd floor lintel band, and cornice. Hipped, graduated slate roofs with deeply overhanging modillioned eaves. Corniced stone mid and end chimneys. 3 storeys. Original house, now west return (facing New Road), 5 bays (3:2): Doric porch in antis, with panelled door in glazed surround, to left-hand block; sash to either side and 3 sashes to each upper floor. 2 sashes to each floor in right-hand block. Stramongate frontage 10 bays (2:6:2), symmetrical except for offset Doric porch with SAND AIRES HOUSE on frieze. 2 right-hand bays formed north return to original house: 2 sashes to each floor. All sashes with glazing bars in recessed surrounds (semicircular-headed to ground floor). Single-storey wing projecting to rear has canted end; 5 sashes, all in recessed, semicircular-headed, surrounds."


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BZP81.jpg  Detail.
(taken 10.11.2013)  
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BZP80.jpg  Porch on New Road.
(taken 10.11.2013)  
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BZP83.jpg  Porch on Stramongate.
(taken 10.11.2013)  

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