Miles Thompson

• Birth date           1808 at Kendal, Westmorland
• Christening         16 March 1808
• Death date          26 August 1868 at his residence in The Lound, Kendal
• Burial                  29 August 1868

 Miles Thompson, architect, was born in Kendal in 1808, the son of John Thompson, whitesmith and his wife, Betty. About 1825 he began work as a draughtsman for Francis and George Webster. George Webster took him into partnership in 1845 and retired in his favour in 1846. Although works by Miles Thompson subsequently appear under the style of “Thompson and Webster,” nothing has been found to indicate any involvement by George Webster following his retirement save in the design of Merlewood.

 In the years that followed Miles Thompson designed many public and domestic buildings in Kendal and district including the old Market Hall, the Alms-houses at Sandes Hospital, and the Public Washhouses and Baths. He is particularly associated with the development of Collin Croft and with the houses on Beast Banks where he lived for many years.  On the gable of No 21 Beast Bank is a small figure of a man holding an architect's drawing, placed there by Miles's brother Robert. His only known commission in Greater Manchester was that for workers’ cottages at Eagley Bank, Bolton

 Miles Thompson died, unmarried, at his house in the Lound in 1868.

Address
1851        Miles Thompson, late Webster and Thompson, Bridge Street, Kendal
1858        Miles Thompson, architect and slate merchant, Lowther Street, Kendal

Residence
1851    Beast Bank, Kendal
1858    The Lound
1861    Miles Thompson, slate merchant, Lound, Kendal
1868    The Lound, near Kendal
1868    Grange-over-Sands (London Gazette 20 November 1868 page 6074))

Reference  Character Appraisal Kendal Conservation Area South Lakeland District Council 2007 -details of works by or attributed to Miles Thompson in Kendal