Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
 |
|
| Red Dragon, Kirkby Lonsdale | ||
| Red Dragon | ||
| Street:- | Main Street | |
| locality:- | Kirkby Lonsdale | |
| civil parish:- | Kirkby Lonsdale (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | inn | |
| coordinates:- | SD61157875 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD6178 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD67 | |
|
|
||
 BPW69.jpg Innsign, a red dragon (taken 2.1.2009)  BPW68.jpg (taken 2.1.2009) |
||
|
|
||
| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Red Dragon Hotel item:- date stone (1830) |
|
| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "RED DRAGON HOTEL / 59 / MAIN STREET / KIRKBY LONSDALE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75198 / SD6116278736" |
|
| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "C17 or early C18, altered C19. Two and a half storeys. Rendered. Slate roof. Two chimneys. Wooden eaves cornice. Two windows with plain surrounds, all coupled. Those to the ground floor sashed, to first floor sashed with all glazing bars. Continuous dormer with three groups of three lights. Doorway with fluted pilasters and entablature, on which is an oval cartouche apparently dated 1830 but painted over. Door of nine raised and fielded panels. Interior. Moulded muntin and plank partitions to either side of front door, that to left cut through to form arch, that to right recently destroyed beyond modern inner door. Corbelled chimneypiece with moulded surround and cornice. Open well closed string stair of circa 1700 with heavy moulded hand rail, square newels with acorn finials, and later stick balusters. Main rooms at front on ground and first floors have exposed chamfered beams, one on first floor with stud holes. On staircase two cupboards with raised and fielded panels." |
|
|
|
||
Lakes Guides menu.