Parkside House And Parklands

SD 59 SW (INSET) KENDAL PARKSIDE ROAD (South side)

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Large house, now subdivided. 1865 by J. Crowther. Snecked slate blocks with dressed stone quoins, plinth, strings, and detailing. Steeply-pitched graduated slate roofs with stone copings. Stone mid and end chimneys. Gothic style. 2 storeys (with attics to Parkside House). Parkside House (originally servants' quarters): 2 bays. Single-light window to each floor of left bay, multi-light window (with shouldered inner heads) to ground and 1st floors of right bay, with pointed 2-light window above. Parklands (adjoining to east): 4 bays. Porch has initialled shield (J.A. & R.R.), with motto, in gable. Pointed outer door with ornamental ironwork, glazed inner door with Gothic tracery. 2 pointed 2-light windows to right; multi-light ground floor window to left with pointed 2-light window above. East return has single-storey canted bay window; multi-light window on left has pointed 2-light window above. Oriel window and full-height canted bay to rear, both with conical roofs. Some multi-light windows have inner trefoil heads. All windows stone-mullioned. Interior of Parklands: Fireplace with joggled lintel in hall; dog-leg staircase, carried on brackets, has solid balustrades pierced with quatrefoils. Panelled doors with embattled lintels to surrounds; panelled window reveals. Decorative Gothic cornices.

Listing NGR: SD5302392061