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| Kings Arms, Kirkby Stephen | ||
| Kings Arms | ||
| locality:- | Kirkby Stephen | |
| civil parish:- | Kirkby Stephen (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | inn | |
| coordinates:- | NY774086 (?) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY7708 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY70 | |
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 BMH52.jpg Innsign; king on horseback with flag and shield with coat of arms. (taken 30.6.2006)  BMH51.jpg (taken 30.6.2006) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 23 15) placename:- Kings Arms Inn, The |
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| 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. |
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| evidence:- | descriptive text:- Wallis 1810 placename:- King's Arms |
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| source data:- | Map, Westmoreland, scale about 19 miles to 1 inch, and
Cumberland, scale about 16 miles to 1 inch, by James Wallis, 77
Berwick Street, Soho, London, 1810; published 1810-36. "PRINCIPAL INNS, RECOMMENDED TO TRAVELLERS AND FAMILIES." "Kirkby Stephen: Black Bull, King's Arms, Pack Horse." |
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| evidence:- | old advertisement:- Braithwaite 1922 placename:- Kings Arms Hotel |
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| source data:- | Advertisement, for Z McClelland, Kings Arms Hotel, Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland, published
by J W Braithwaite and Sons, Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland, 1922. click to enlargeBT1A11.jpg Included in a guide book, Kirkby Stephen, 4th edn 1922. item:- private collection : 220.23 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- King's Arms Hotel |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "KING'S ARMS HOTEL / / MARKET STREET / KIRKBY STEPHEN / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 72992 / NY7754008688" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Hotel, late C18/early C19 with later alterations. Rendered rubble with chamfered quoins to south end. Graduated slate roof, hipped to south, with stone chimney to north end. 3 storeys, 6 bays. 3 sashes with glazing bars to right of panelled door with rectangular fanlight; single bow window with glazing bars, and single 16-paned sash to left. Tuscan porch to door carries 2 storey projecting bay window. 3 sashes with glazing bars to each upper floor; all sashes have stone surrounds. Large painted inn sign fastened to middle of upper wall. Pavement gratings to cellarage. Internally, panelled doors in reeded doorcases survive throughout; staircase has squared wooden ballusters on cut string with scrolled tread-ends. Corinthian cornice to landing where a small saucer-dome with diagonal ribs is carried on thin fluted colums (said to be remains of C18 powder closet)." |
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