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Kings Arms, Temple Sowerby
Kings Ams Hotel
locality:-   Temple Sowerby
civil parish:-   Temple Sowerby (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   NY61102712
1Km square:-   NY6127
10Km square:-   NY62


photograph
BME79.jpg  Innsign; coat of arms.
(taken 1.6.2006)  
photograph
BME78.jpg (taken 1.6.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 4 16) 
placename:-  King's Arms Inn
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  King's Arms Hotel
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"KING'S ARMS HOTEL / / A66 / TEMPLE SOWERBY / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 424437 / NY6110927132"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Formerly Inn and attached house; C18 with later additions and alterations. Original Inn to east is built of ashlar with chamfered plinth and rusticated quoins; lintel band to ground floor windows. Graduated slate roof has stone coping, kneeler, and chimney to east end; stone mid chimney. 2 storeys, 5 bays. Door with pedimented architrave to left of centre is original, similar doorcase to right of centre was moved to house and replaced by window in C20; remaining door has single sash to either side and 2 above, all with glazing bars except ground floor left. Single paired sashes with glazing bars to each floor on right. 2-storey, 3-bay house to west has incised stucco front. Graduated slate roof was raised in C20 and 2 gabled dormers added; stone end chimneys. Window replaced original central door when present door was knocked through; former inn doorcase was used as a shallow porch. 2 original sashes to ground floor, 3 to 1st, all with glazing bars."


photograph
BME80.jpg  Innsign; coat of arms.
(taken 1.6.2006)  

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