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| Tower Bank Arms, Near Sawrey | ||
| Tower Bank Arms | ||
| locality:- | Near Sawrey | |
| civil parish:- | Claife (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | inn | |
| coordinates:- | SD37059558 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD3795 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD39 | |
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 BPY31.jpg Innsign, a Beatric Potter illustration? (taken 23.1.2009)  BPY30.jpg (taken 23.1.2009) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 5 7) placename:- Tower Bank Arms |
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| 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. |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Tower Bank Arms |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "TOWER BANK ARMS AND PUBLIC HOUSE / / B 5285 / CLAIFE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76723 / SD3704295575" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Public House. Probably C18 or early C19. Roughcast stone with slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays, the 1st bay canted back, possibly later. Ground floor has bay window with hipped roof and paired sashes with horns to 1st bay; 2nd and 3rd bays have sashed windows, that to 2nd bay with vertical glazing bars, that to 3rd bay with glazing bars. 1st floor has sashed window with glazing bars to 1st bay, and small-paned casements to 2nd and 3rd bays. Entrance between 2nd and 3rd bays has timber gabled porch with clock to gable. Gable-end stacks. Left return has gabled 2-bay range to rear, with lean-to outshut projecting as single-pitch wing; gabled porch. Right return has lean-to outshut. Rear is low, built into hillside below Hill Top (q.v.). The building was illustrated by Beatrix Potter in 'The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck', 1908, p.58, a reproduction of which is on inn sign to left return." |
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 BPY33.jpg Clock over the porch:- "W. HIRD / BARROW" (taken 23.1.2009) |
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