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Black Bull Hotel, Kirkby Stephen
Black Bull Hotel
locality:-   Kirkby Stephen
civil parish:-   Kirkby Stephen (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   NY77480864
1Km square:-   NY7708
10Km square:-   NY70
references:-   Wallis 1810


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BVR07.jpg (taken 13.11.2011)  
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BVR08.jpg  Innsign, lettering only.
(taken 13.11.2011)  

evidence:-   descriptive text:- Wallis 1810
placename:-  Black Bull
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."

evidence:-   old advertisement:- Braithwaite 1922
placename:-  Black Bull Hotel
source data:-   Advertisment, for T W Johnstone, Black Bull Hotel, Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland, published by J W Braithwaite and Sons, Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland, 1922.
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Included in a guide book, Kirkby Stephen, 4th edn 1922. 
item:-  private collection : 220.48
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Black Bull Hotel
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BLACK BULL HOTEL / / MARKET STREET / KIRKBY STEPHEN / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73002 / NY7748908642"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Hotel, early C19 with later alterations. 3 storeys, 4 bays overall with graduated slate roof. North bay is incised stucco with stucco voussoirs to segmentally-headed carriage arch; stone end chimney; single 16-paned sash to each upper floor. Remaining 3 bays symmetrical; coursed rubble with plinth and rusticated end pilasters; brick end chimneys. Single paired-sash to either side of panelled door and rectangular fanlight within Tuscan porch; 3 sashes to each upper floor. All windows have stucco surrounds."

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