NOS 39, 43, 45, 45A AND ENTRANCE TO YARD 41

SD 5192 NE 8/119 14-4-69 KENDAL

MARKET PLACE (BRANTHWAITE BROW, West side)

Nos 39, 43, 45, 45A, & entrance to Yard 41

G.V. II*

Shops, on sloping site. Dated 1853 over Yard entry. Built by owner, Joseph Winder (a local iron-founder, Lound foundry) on site of properties demolished 1851 when road widened, Unique construction of large, cast-iron, panels fastened back to timber frame; south return stone, with hammer-dressed pilaster. Graduated slate roof; stone mid chimney. 3 storeys, 6 bays overall. Horizontal cast-iron panels, decorated with plain saltire crosses, slotted between 5 grooved uprights; 4 of uprights terminate in original cast-iron gutter brackets. Individual lengths of panel appear to be flanged or tongue-and- grooved for jointing. Some of ground-floor panels are vertical with Gothic decoration (ogee arcading carried between colonettes). Uprights around doors are decorated with lions' heads. No 39: Part-glazed door to left in shop front; Yard entry, with C20 wrought-iron gate, on left. 2 windows to each floor above, with upright between; brackets (for sign?) to 1st floor right. No 43: C20 door with glazing bars to right of upright, shop front to left; 2 windows to each floor above. No 45: Part-glazed door with oval fanlight to right of shop front, C20 part-glazed door and square fanlight to no 45A on left; 2 windows to each floor above. All shop fronts re-glazed in original corniced wooden surrounds with fluted pilasters; trellis-work cast-iron cellar grilles. All upper windows original cast-iron casements (some minor alterations).

Listing NGR: SD5160692776