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| Highgate Hotel, Kendal | ||
| Highgate Hotel | ||
| Street:- | Highgate | |
| locality:- | Kendal | |
| civil parish:- | Kendal (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | inn | |
| coordinates:- | SD51469231 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD5192 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD59 | |
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 BQE34.jpg (taken 4.3.2009)  BQE36.jpg Inscribed above a window:- "1769 / TO THE DWELLERS IN THIS PLACE GOD GRANTE PEACE" (taken 14.8.2005) |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Highgate Hotel item:- date stone (1769) |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "HIGHGATE HOTEL / 128 / HIGHGATE / KENDAL / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 75405 / SD5147492327" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Large house (or houses), now hotel. Dated 1769 on panel above ground floor window whose lintel is inscribed: TO THE DWELLERS IN THIS PLACE GOD GRANTE PEACE (sic). Wet- dashed rubble with plinth and eaves cornice; boxed wooden gutter carried on dentils. South return partly slate-hung. Graduated slate roof with rendered chimneys to either end and left of centre (parallel to ridge); small roof access to front. 3 storeys, 5 bays. Studded plank door to extreme left, in chamfered surround with false 4-centred head, leads through to rear. Panelled door, in wooden surround up stone steps, has dated and inscribed window to left and 3 to right. All sashes with glazing bars; upper sashes are aligned with ground floor sashes but narrower and retain wide glazing bars." |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "MILESTONES FLANKING STEPS TO ENTRANCE OF NUMBER 128 / / HIGHGATE / KENDAL / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75406 / SD5148492325" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "2 milestones, probably early C19 for Turnpike Trust. Single cylindrical stone c2 ft high to either side of steps. Painted white with black sans-serif lettering: (left-hand stone) EDINBURGH 135 MLS; (right-hand stone) LONDON 258 MLS. This lettering is not carved and the mileages have changed since the last list description." |
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 BJS47.jpg Milestone outside the door:- "LONDON 258 Miles" (taken 14.8.2005)  BQE35.jpg Milestone outside the door:- "EDINBURGH 135 Miles" (taken 4.3.2009) |
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| Currington, David: 2009: Pictorial Record of Public Houses in Kendal: Westmorland
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