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| Watson Institute, Castle Carrock | ||
| Watson Institute | ||
| locality:- | Castle Carrock | |
| civil parish:- | Castle Carrock (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | village hall | |
| coordinates:- | NY54305544 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY5455 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY55 | |
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 BMM55.jpg (taken 11.8.2006)  BMM57.jpg (taken 11.8.2006) |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "VILLAGE HALL / / / CASTLE CARROCK / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 77995 / NY5430655424" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Village Hall. Dated 1897 over side entrance and inscribed THE WATSON INSTITUTE/ CASTLE CARROCK. Dressed red sandstone, graduated Welsh slate roof with coped gables, stone chimney stack. Single storey, 4 bays. Front has top glazed oak panel door with corbelled leaded porch. Mixed fenestration of 1, 2 and 3-light mullioned and cross mullioned windows, all with glazing bars. Slightly projecting square angle tower to left has square turret with battlemented parapets. Large plank doors with pointed arch in squared, chamfered recess, form side entrance. Single-storey, 2-bay extension to right has casement windows with glazing bars and modillioned parapet. In prominent position close to the village green and included partly for G.V. with the nearby church." |
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 BMM56.jpg Stone carved in relief:- "THE WATSON INSTITUTE CASTLE CARROCK 1897" (taken 11.8.2006) |
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