Former Public Wash House And Baths With Adjoining Public Convenience

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SD 5192 NW, 7/5

KENDAL, ALL HALLOWS LANE (South side), Former public wash-house and baths with adjoining public convenience

(Formerly listed as: Public wash-house and baths with adjoining public convenience)

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Former 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. Five paired windows to each wing; door has replaced 6th window to extreme right. Left-hand wing has lower storey with door and four 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.

Listing NGR: SD5140992608