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Royal Hotel, Kirkby Lonsdale
Royal Hotel
Willman's Royal Hotel
locality:-   Kirkby Lonsdale
civil parish:-   Kirkby Lonsdale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn (hotel) 
coordinates:-   SD61147859
1Km square:-   SD6178
10Km square:-   SD67


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BPW75.jpg  Innsign above the door.
(taken 2.1.2009)  
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CDO08.jpg (taken 9.7.2015)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 47 8) 
placename:-  Royal Hotel
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:-   old advertisement:- Black 1856 (16th edn 1884) 
source data:-   Guide book, Black's Guide to the English Lakes, published by Adam and Charles Black, Edimnburgh, Lothian, 16th edn 1884.
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BC10Ad01.jpg
item:-  JandMN : 59
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Royal Hotel
placename:-  Rose and Crown
placename:-  Jackson Hall
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"ROYAL HOTEL / 30 / MAIN STREET / KIRKBY LONSDALE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75173 / SD6113478620"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Mid C18 inn, altered C19, incorporating a C17 house behind. Three storeys. Ashlar. Slate roof. Two chimneys. Chamfered rustication to ground floor. First floor sill band, dentil and modillion cornice and blocking course. Symmetrical facade to Main Street of five bays. Windows with sills and plain reveals, rustication splayed over those on ground floor. Sashed with all glazing bars. Central window first floor elongated downwards with small semicircular wrought iron balcony. Over this window mid C19 painted tablet with "Royal Hotel" framed by triglyphs and mutules. Porch with two Ionic columns and corresponding pilasters on wall, pulvinated frieze, modillion cornice and pediment. Extension to right hand side before 1855. Three storeys. Coursed rubble. One bay to Main Street, five to New Road. Corner rounded. Eaves cornice. Windows with plain stone surrounds, sashed with all glazing bars. Doorway to New Road with open pediment on consoles. In yard behind, older part retains one moulded lintel to second floor window. C17 doorway (now window) with moulded jambs and lintel enriched with curvilinear moulding and rosettes. Other windows box sashed with all glazing bars. Interior. Front room right hand side has semicircular extension through former external wall with mid C19 fireplace with pilaster strips. Large rectangular stair- case with two flight cantilevered stair mid C19. In lobby behind staircase two exposed beams and made up Jacobean chimneypiece of wood with two dissimilar Ionic pilasters. In west wing on first floor late C17 or early C18 two flight dogleg stair with closed string. Turned balusters, heavy moulded handrail, three turned newels with ball finials and one ball pendant. Part of the building was formerly a private residence called Jackson Hall. This became the Rose and Crown Inn, but New Road was driven across the northern part of the property after a fire in 1820. A visit of Queen Adelaide in 1840 occasioned the change of name and probably the additions. (Annals)."


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BPW74.jpg (taken 2.1.2009)  

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