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| Moot Hall, Brampton | ||
| Moot Hall | ||
| Street:- | Market Place | |
| locality:- | Brampton | |
| civil parish:- | Brampton (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| coordinates:- | NY53056108 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY5361 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY56 | |
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 BMM74.jpg Now just Tourist Information. (taken 11.8.2006)  BUB07.jpg (taken 16.2.2011) |
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 BUB09.jpg There is a plaque commemorating Peter Burn, a local poet. "A GOOD NAME IS RATHER TO / BE CHOSEN THAN GREAT RICHES / THIS TABLET / IS PLACED BY / FRIENDS OF / PETER BURN / POET / A NATIVE OF / BRAMPTON / IN RECOGNITION / OF HIS SERVICES / FOR THE COMMON / GOOD / BORN 1831 / DIED 1902" (taken 16.2.2011) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 18 5) placename:- Town Hall |
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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. "Town Hall" |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Moot Hall |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "MOOT HALL / / MARKET PLACE / BRAMPTON / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 77849 / NY5307461088" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Moot Hall. 1817, replacing C17 Town Hall, for the Earl of Carlisle: given to the Parish Council 1896 and extended on ground floor. Extension of dressed red sandstone, with stucco and painted quoins above, green slate roof with lead hips; wooden tower with lead cupola. Octagonal building, originally open on the ground floor for butter, egg and poultry market. 2 storeys, 3 bays, with single storey extension. Ground floor has round headed porch, flanked by small niches, under external staircase to upper floor meeting chamber, now Tourist Office. Large round headed windows with glazing bars to extension. Upper floor has pointed head entrance and windows, plank door with radial fanlight and glazing bar sashes with square and shaped heads. Tower has engaged angle columns and clock, surmounted by latticed cupola containing market bell and weather vane. Bench mark left of entrance: iron stocks to right. Stairs to right have bronze wall plaque to Robert Burn, local poet, died 1902. Bull ring set in cobbles to west of entrance." |
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