Castle Dairy, 26 Wildman Street

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SD 5193 SE 5/176

KENDAL WILDMAN STREET (North side) No 26 (Castle Dairy)

24-4-51

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Farmhouse; the name implies an association with Kendal Castle but 'Dairy' may be a corruption of 'Dowry'. Now a restaurant. Probably C14; extensively remodelled c1560 for Anthony Garnett (numerous dated features have survived). Later additions and alterations. Coursed rubble with quoins. Graduated stone-flag roofs; stone chimneys (corbelled to west wing and projecting to east wing). Central Hall with two-storey cross-wing to either end.

For detailed description (including exceptionally well-preserved interior) see R.C.H.M. Westmorland (1936), with the following amendments: multi-light windows, to Hall front and to west wing first floor, were renewed in 1983/84 (all in facsimile except for heads carved on label-stops to Hall window). On the interior, two more original doorways (with pointed heads) have been opened up on the left-hand side of the cross-passage; the ground floor, east wing, fireplace and some of the original windows have also been unblocked. The extension to the rear of the west wing has been demolished.

Listing NGR: SD5193593066