Flats A,B,C,D,E,F Grandy Nook

SD 5192 NW KENDAL LOW FELLSIDE

(West side) 7/87 Flats A, B, C, D, & E Grandy Nook 14-4-69 (previously listed as nos 52, 54, & 56) II

House(s), now subdivided into flats. 1659 date on stone panel set in gable of rear wing; initials T. & K.S., for Thomas Sandes (founder of Sandes Hospital in Highgate) and Katherine, his wife. 2nd panel (originally oak) above front door of northern block: T. & I.F. 1669. Restored 1864 for John Fisher; later additions and alterations. Slobbered rubble with wide plinth to south return. Graduated slate roofs with gabled dormers and full-height rear wing to southern block; stone end chimneys. Southern block: Roughly symmetrical; 2 storeys with attics, 5 bays. 2 central C19 studded doors side by side: wooden oriel above and 2 wood-mullioned and transomed windows to each floor on either side. Dripstone over ground-floor windows. Northern block: Symmetrical; 2 storeys, 3 bays. Central C19 studded door under canopy on consoles; wood-mullioned and transomed window to each floor on either side (hoodmoulds with labels to ground floor). Door to rear wing has moulded jambs and false 4-centred head; 2 porches added to rear of northern block. For details of dated interior features see R.C.H.M. Westmorland (1936) p.129 items 60 and 61; strapwork frieze (dated 1666) recorded by R.C.H.M. was not seen during listing re-survey (April 1984) and balustrade was said to have been removed.

Listing NGR: SD5124892866