Melrose Place, Kendal, Westmorland One Place Study

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Melrose Place, Kendal, Westmorland One Place Study

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Geography

Continent: Europe

Sovereign State: United Kingdom

Country: England

County: Westmorland

GPS Coordinates: 54.32899836572225, -2.7419390372099532

Elevation: 49.0 m or 160.8 feet

History

Melrose Place was built to the order of Kendal leather merchant John Tebay in 1896. A warehouse previously occupied the site.

The property faces south-west, looking along New Road towards Miller Bridge. The south-west face includes the date stone and the entrance to No. 2 Melrose Place which forms the right-hand side of the property.

The left hand side is No. 1 Melrose Place, the entrance to which is in the north-west face on New Road.

The south-east wall borders the River Kent and its windows look out over the river to Gooseholme.

At the rear of the premises is a lane which provides access to the rear of the two properties, and also to the adjacent Lambrigg Terrace.

Population

Past occupants of the two Melrose Place properties are shown below:

1 Melrose Place

1901 - Sarah Ellen Buckley nee Green and her sons Frederick William Buckley (railway porter) & Arthur Daniel Buckley (spirit merchant's errand boy)

1906 - Mary Boothroyd (Mrs)

1911 - Maurice John Pearson (1862-1928) (fellmonger & leather dresser)

1914 - John Painter

1921 - John Painter

1925 - John Painter

1939 - vacant

1980/81 - vacant

2004 - Aug 10 - sold for £122,000

2 Melrose Place

1901 - William Matthews (joiner carpenter), his wife

1906 - William Matthews

1911 - William Matthews

1914 - James Potter

1921 - Mrs Potter

1925 - Mrs Potter

1939 - James Hartley Butterworth (1865-1943) (retired barrister), wife Elizabeth and daughter Marian

1980/81 - Ground Floor Flat - Martin White (Provincial Insurance Company)

1980/81 - First Floor Flat - Alexander Kyle Morrow (1919-1985) (security officer for Provincial Insurance Company) and wife Dorothea Frances Morrow nee Kelly (1918 - 1991)

1998 - property used as offices for The Vis Williams Pritchard Partnership Architects - J S Pritchard retired from the practice on 1 November 1998. The remaining partners W J Vis and A D Varley continued in practice as Vis Williams Varley with D Michael Williams remaining as Executive Consultant at Kendal.^[1]

2004 - Mar 29 - sold for £142,500

2004-2011 - property used as offices for John E Taylor & Company Chartered Surveyors (dissolved 2014)

2011 - Oct 4 - planning approval given to convert property back to residential use

2013 - Apr 17 - sold for £145,000

Notes from the meeting of the Kendal Tactical Traffic group meeting held on 1 April 2009 stated "There have been some landownership issues to address outside Melrose Place, as well as discrepancies between landowner/ highways and common land ownership plans. The works on New Road Car Park and Gooseholme cannot be pursued until SLDC has resolved the common land issues."

Sources

1. ↑ The Gazette accessed 23.10.2023