7, Finkle Street

No. 7 Finkle Street is a shop that likely dates from the early 18th century, with later alterations. The building features incised stucco and has a lintel band at the second floor. It has a wooden gutter and a graduated slate roof with two small skylights, along with stone chimneys at each end. The structure is three storeys high and consists of four bays. The shop front was inserted around 1830 and is supported by reeded pilasters that hold up an egg and dart cornice. There is a panelled door on the left leading to a rear passage, and a 20th-century glazed door set back between splayed, 20th-century plate-glass windows. Each floor above has four sash windows with wide glazing bars, and there is a single sash window on the first floor of the north return. The rest of the building, which faces onto Highgate Yard 5, features 18th-century wood-mullioned and transomed windows. Notably, Thomas Cotton, the first printer in Kendal, published the first Kendal newspaper, the Kendal Weekly Courant, from these premises on January 1, 1731-32.