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Snooty Fox, Kirkby Lonsdale
Snooty Fox
Street:-   Main Street
locality:-   Kirkby Lonsdale
civil parish:-   Kirkby Lonsdale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   SD61157866
1Km square:-   SD6178
10Km square:-   SD67


photograph
BPW72.jpg  Innsign, a flat designer picture of a fox.
(taken 2.1.2009)  
photograph
BPW71.jpg (taken 2.1.2009)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Snooty Fox Tavern
placename:-  Green Dragon
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"SNOOTY FOX TAVERN / 33 / MAIN STREET / KIRKBY LONSDALE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75188 / SD6116078664"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Late C17 or early C18 inn. Three storeys. Plastered. Slate roof. Four chimneys. Plinth and rusticated quoins. Windows with sills and plain reveals. Two on ground floor coupled. All but left hand ground floor sashed with all glazing bars, though two on second floor were until recently blind. Doorway with wooden architrave which formally had consoled hood over. Six panel door. Passageway to right hand side with segmental chamfered head recently closed off. Interior. Ground floor considerably altered but retains one large corbelled chimney- piece with moulded surround and cornice, incised keystone and two round headed niches in either jamb. To left of this a fitted spice cupboard with "R.P. 1711" on door. To right a larger cupboard with raised and fielded panels, inserted in this position since 1934. Four flight closed string dogleg stair with square newels and heavy hand rail but modern stick balusters. Top flight has renewed splat balusters of late C17 type. On first floor round headed niche in wall of recently subdivided room (one of former pair). Two C17 and three C18 panelled doors. On second floor three latched. plank doors, one C17 Panelled door, one C18 door with raised and fielded panels. In attic one C17 panelled door. Collar and tie beam roof. Formerly the Green Dragon and one of the principal inns, with an Assembly Room in the demolished outbuildings."


photograph
BPW73.jpg  Innsign, a fox
(taken 2.1.2009)  

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