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

Nos 39, 43, 45, 45A and the entrance to Yard 41 are shops located on a sloping site in Kendal, dated 1853 above the yard entry. They were built by Joseph Winder, a local iron-founder, on the site of properties that were demolished in 1851 when the road was widened. The unique construction features large cast-iron panels fastened to a timber frame, with a stone return to the south that includes a hammer-dressed pilaster. The building has a graduated slate roof and a stone mid chimney, standing three storeys tall with six bays overall.

The horizontal cast-iron panels are decorated with plain saltire crosses and are slotted between five grooved uprights, four of which terminate in original cast-iron gutter brackets. The individual lengths of the panels appear to be flanged or tongue-and-grooved for jointing. Some ground-floor panels are vertical and feature Gothic decoration, including ogee arcading carried between colonettes. The uprights around the doors are adorned with lions' heads.

For No 39, there is a part-glazed door to the left in the shop front, and the yard entry has a 20th-century wrought-iron gate on the left. Each floor above has two windows with an upright between them, and there are brackets (possibly for signage) to the right on the first floor. No 43 features a 20th-century door with glazing bars to the right of the upright, with a shop front to the left and two windows on each floor above. No 45 has a part-glazed door with an oval fanlight to the right of the shop front, while No 45A has a 20th-century part-glazed door with a square fanlight to the left; both also have two windows on each floor above. All shop fronts have been re-glazed within original corniced wooden surrounds with fluted pilasters, and there are trellis-work cast-iron cellar grilles. The upper windows are original cast-iron casements, although some minor alterations have been made.