A black and white plaque on a stone wall reads: "GAS METER HOUSE FACADE Designed by Francis Webster, this facade was erected in 1825 on the gas meter house of the Kendal Gas Light and Coke Company in Parkside Road. It was preserved when the gasworks was dismantled in 1969 and its re-erection here in 1984 was sponsored by North West Cas. The text on the pediment, "Ex fumo daring" (from smoke let light break out), comes from Horace's "Ars Poetics (The Art of Poetry). Here applied to gaslight it referred originally to poetic inspiration."