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Temperance Hall, Kirkby Stephen
Temperance Hall
Museum of Costume
Street:-   Nateby Road
locality:-   Kirkby Stephen
civil parish:-   Kirkby Stephen (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   meeting hall (once) 
locality type:-   museum (?) 
coordinates:-   NY77540850
1Km square:-   NY7708
10Km square:-   NY70

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evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 23 15) 
placename:-  Temperance Hall
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:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Temperance Hall
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"TEMPERANCE HALL / / NATEBY ROAD / KIRKBY STEPHEN / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73010 / NY7754808505"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Offices, at right-angles to road. Originally Temperance Hall, dated 1856. Ashlar front with plinth and rusticated end pilasters; cornice and parapet above. Graduated slate roof, stone end chimney. Single tall storey, 3 bays (symmetrical). 3 steps up to central 6-panelled door with rectangular fanlight and architrave standing on blocks; plain medallion to lintel with foliate scroll consoles carrying an open segmental pediment. Above is statue of Temperance supported on bracket within semicircular-headed niche with hoodmould having keystone and inwardly-turned scrolled labels. To either side is a single tall window (5 panes and margins) with an architrave having feet supported on a bracketed sill; plain medallion to lintel with foliate scroll consoles carrying cornice. Parapet has "Temperance Hall" in large, raised, sans-serif lettering; large central datestone with scrolled supports tops parapet. Facade is painted."

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