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Olde Fleece Inn, Kendal
Street:-   Stricklandgate
locality:-   Kendal
civil parish:-   Kendal (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   SD51479268
1Km square:-   SD5192
10Km square:-   SD59


photograph
BLU77.jpg  Innsign.
(taken 9.4.2006)  
photograph
BLU76.jpg (taken 9.4.2006)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Fleece Inn
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"FLEECE INN AND YARD ENTRANCE / / HIGHGATE / KENDAL / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75390 / SD5147292692"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Public House. Probably late C17/early C18. Previous list gives 1654 date; this date appears on panel in property adjoining to south which temporarily formed part of the Inn c1723. Later alterations. Timber-framed with jettied upper floors; wet-dashed. Dentilled eaves cornice. Graduated slate roof. 3 storeys, 2 bays. Passage through to rear on left with upper storeys carried across on wooden beams. C20 part-glazed double door to south return with wood-mullioned and transomed casement in squint to left and C18 sash above. East elevation has 5 wooden Tuscan columns (c1850 replacements of original posts) carrying bressummer. 5-light ground floor casement and two 3-light casements to each upper floor are C20 insertions out of keeping with the building's original character. Interior extensively remodelled in early 1980s."

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"PROPERTY ADJOINING SOUTH SIDE OF FLEECE INN / / HIGHGATE / KENDAL / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75391 / SD5147492686"


Currington, David: 2009: Pictorial Record of Public Houses in Kendal: Westmorland CAMRA

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