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| wash house, Kendal | ||
| Street:- | All Hallows Lane | |
| civil parish:- | Kendal (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | wash house | |
| locality type:- | public baths | |
| locality type:- | public convenience | |
| coordinates:- | SD51409260 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD5192 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD59 | |
| references:- | Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "PUBLIC WASH HOUSE AND BATHS WITH ADJOINING PUBLIC CONVENIENCE / / ALL HALLOWS LANE / KENDAL / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75345 / SD5140992608" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Public wash-houses and baths. 1864 by Miles Thompson. Swimming bath added when Corporation took over in 1884; single-storey stone-built public convenience added at east end probably at same time. Built on sloping site with same eaves height throughout. Snecked rubble on plinth of rough-dressed blocks with similar pilaster to west end. Gabled entrance block has hammer-dressed plinth, end pilasters, and bands. Graduated slate roofs; blocking course and dentils to wings, dormer to each side of entrance block roof. Tall, tapered, octagonal boiler chimney to north-east corner; other stacks to ridge. All chimneys corniced stone. Symmetrical 3-bay central entrance block has part-glazed door, with radiating fanlight, and sash to either side above with blank panel between; all openings in semicircular-headed surrounds. 5 paired windows to each wing; door has replaced 6th window to extreme right. Left-hand wing has lower storey with door and 4 windows, all segment-headed. Drinking fountain in niche with moulded sill to extreme left. Provision of this public facility was a local election issue in early 1860s; financed by public subscription. 1st public building erected in Kendal for public institution." |
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