Parkside House and Parklands is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1985. House. 5 related planning applications.
Parkside House and Parklands
- WRENN ID
- waiting-barrel-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Parkside House and Parklands, Parkside Road, Kendal, LA9 7LG
- OS grid reference
- SD 530 920
- Coordinates
- 54.32196, -2.72374
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Parkside House and Parklands is a large house, now subdivided, built in 1865 by J. Crowther. The structure features snecked slate blocks with dressed stone quoins, a plinth, strings, and detailing. It has steeply-pitched graduated slate roofs with stone copings and stone chimneys at the mid and ends. Designed in the Gothic style, it consists of two storeys, with attics in Parkside House.
Parkside House, which originally served as the servants' quarters, has two bays. It includes a single-light window on each floor of the left bay and a multi-light window with shouldered inner heads on the ground and first floors of the right bay, topped by a pointed 2-light window.
Adjoining to the east is Parklands, which has four bays. The porch features an initialled shield (J.A. & R.R.) with a motto in the gable. It has a pointed outer door with ornamental ironwork and a glazed inner door with Gothic tracery. To the right are two pointed 2-light windows, while the left has a multi-light ground floor window with a pointed 2-light window above. The east return showcases a single-storey canted bay window, with a multi-light window on the left and a pointed 2-light window above. At the rear, there is an oriel window and a full-height canted bay, both topped with conical roofs. Some multi-light windows feature inner trefoil heads, and all windows are stone-mullioned.
Inside Parklands, there is a fireplace with a joggled lintel in the hall, and a dog-leg staircase supported on brackets with solid balustrades pierced with quatrefoils. The interior also includes panelled doors with embattled lintels, panelled window reveals, and decorative Gothic cornices.
Local climate
Parkside House and Parklands sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,430 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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