The Bridge Café

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NY 2623 1/60

KESWICK HIGH HILL The Bridge Café

(Formerly listed as MAIN STREET Keswick Industrial Arts)

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School of Industrial Arts and Crafts, 1893-4, by Paley, Austin and Paley for Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley. Snecked stone with Westmorland slate roofs. L-shape plan, local vernacular style. Two storeys with attic to front elevation and single storey workshops attached at the rear. Main entrance in bay three of the first floor, reached by an attached spiral-stair drum leading to a four-bay plain wooden verandah. Front facade has painted wooden inscription (quoting Robert Browning) above the (altered) three-bay window at ground-floor reading: 'The loving eye and patient hand, shall work with joy and bless the land'. The first floor has two 32-pane windows and a half-glazed door set back at verandah level with long roof dormer above. Facade completed by a two-storey gabled end bay, with two windows at ground level and a canted oriel window above. The front gable, side gable and double rear gables are all hung with Westmorland slates down to eaves level. Rear elevation of two storeys has a six-light, canted, first-floor bay window. Interior not inspected. Included for historical association with the founder. Canon Rawnsley was a patron of Beatrix Potter and co-founder of the National Trust, who (with his wife Edith, who supervised the teaching of metalwork) established the Keswick School of Industrial Arts in 1883.’

Listing NGR: NY2625623752