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George and Dragon, Dent
George and Dragon
locality:-   Dent
civil parish:-   Dent (formerly Yorkshire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   SD70528698
1Km square:-   SD7086
10Km square:-   SD78


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BRW39.jpg  Innsign - St George and a dragon.
(taken 13.11.2009)  
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BRW38.jpg (taken 13.11.2009)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  George and Dragon, The
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"THE GEORGE AND DRAGON / / MAIN STREET / DENT / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484422 / SD7052186978"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Hotel. Rebuilt in mid C19. Watershot coursed sandstone rubble with freestone dressings, hipped slate roof. Rectangular plan on north-south axis at junction of two branches of Main Street, splayed at the corner. 3 storeys, 1:3 windows including the splayed corner, which has a large square-headed doorway up 2 steps, with a chamfered surround and a painted signboard over it, a 30-pane sash at 1st floor and a 16-pane sash at 2nd floor. The 3-window west front has rectangular 24-pane sashes at ground- and 1st-floor levels, square 16-pane sashes at 2nd floor. The 1-window north end has matching fenestration."
"INTERIOR: altered. (Now internally integrated with former cottage to north, which is 2 low storeys and has a blocked doorway in the centre and 2 altered windows on each floor; and, being contiguous with Edmonson's and of the same proportions, is included for group value only.)"


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BRW40.jpg  Sign:-
"THE DENT BREWERY TAP / ..." (taken 13.11.2009)  
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BRW41.jpg  Logo of Dent Brewery; a Rough Fell sheep?
(taken 13.11.2009)  
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BRW42.jpg  cast iron plaque, Cyclists Touring Club.
(taken 13.11.2009)  

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