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Queens Head, Askham
Queens Head
locality:-   Askham
civil parish:-   Askham (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   NY51292368
1Km square:-   NY5123
10Km square:-   NY52

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BRP25.jpg  Innsign, Victoria
(taken 25.9.2009)  
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BRP23.jpg (taken 25.9.2009)  
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BRP24.jpg  Date stone:-
"N / T A 1682" (taken 25.9.2009)  
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Queens Head Inn, The
item:-  date stone (1682)
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"THE QUEENS HEAD INN / / / ASKHAM / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74420 / NY5129823695"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"2 houses now public house. Dated and inscribed: "T&AN 1682" but this is in fact 1762. Painted rough-cast walls outer limestone rubble with quoins, under graduated green slate roof with painted-render chimney stacks. Formerly 2 houses, 2 storeys, 3 bays each under common roof with rear 2-storey extension and left single-storey lean-to right-angle extension. Central, to both houses, double C20 doors in painted stone surround within C20 gabled wooden porch. Sash windows with glazing bars, a central one in the right house being in a partly blocked doorway with dated lintel, all in painted stone surrounds."

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BRP30.jpg  Plaque; 2 crows and a V
(taken 25.9.2009)  
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