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| Crown Hotel, Wetheral | ||
| Crown Hotel | ||
| Street:- | Station Road | |
| locality:- | Wetheral | |
| civil parish:- | Wetheral (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | inn | |
| coordinates:- | NY46705459 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4654 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY45 | |
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 BQF47.jpg Dull designer innsign, an improbable crown. Also notice the AA 3 star lamp. (taken 11.3.2009)  BQF46.jpg (taken 11.3.2009) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 24 6) placename:- Crown Inn |
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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:- Crown Hotel |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "CROWN HOTEL / / STATION ROAD / WETHERAL / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 77697 / NY4671854584" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Hotel, formerly 2 houses. Circa 1800, altered to present form by Harry Redfern for the Carlisle & District State Management Scheme, c1930. Cement rendered, probably covering sandstone walls, with moulded stone dressings, slate roof. 3 storey, 7 bays. Raised qunin stones and moulded cornice to original roof line between first and second floor windows: further moulded cornice to 1930 roof level. Heavy dentilled entablature to entrance, with 2 Roman Ionic columns. Sash windows with moulded surrounds, central tripartite windows. C20 alterations have retained the character of the earlier building. First became an inn about 1838, with the coming of the Newcastle &Carlisle Railway and the building of the nearby Wetheral Station: taken over in 1916 by the Central Control Board and de-nationalised in 1973 becoming a private hotel." |
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