9 And 11, Church Walk

SD 5192 SE KENDAL CHURCH WALK (North side) 11/19 Nos 9 & 11 14-4-69

G.V. II

Old Grammar School, now 2 houses. No 11 is linked to Lakeland Life and Industry Museum (in Abbot Hall Stable Block) by 1st floor walkway. School founded 1525 and closed 1888. Present site granted 1588; built by public subscription. Subdivided and remodelled 1891 by J.F. Curwen. Coursed rubble with quoins. Graduated slate roof, hipped to east end. Corniced stone chimney to west end and large stone cross-ridge mid chimney with 7 cylindrical stacks. 2 storeys, 6 bays overall. South elevation: No 9 has full-height gabled wing added with decorative barge-boards and crocketed finial; cylindrical stone chimney to eaves. Door to no 9 in west return; plank door to no 11 under canopy carried on pierced wooden brackets (left bracket dated 1592, and right 1891). C19 wooden mullioned and transomed, diamond-leaded, windows inserted in older (larger) openings, some under timber lintels. North elevation has some (C18?) sashes, with wide glazing bars, inserted in earlier openings. Straight joint shows that eastern bay was added. A massive stop-chamfered beam survives internally. Forms part of churchyard group.

Listing NGR: SD5163992182