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Kings Head, Ulverston
Kings Head
Street:-   Queen Street
locality:-   Ulverston
civil parish:-   Ulverston (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   SD28547828
1Km square:-   SD2878
10Km square:-   SD27
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


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BYD28.jpg  Innsign, king's head.
(taken 11.4.2013)  
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BYD27.jpg (taken 11.4.2013)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Kings Head
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"KINGS HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE / 12 AND 14 / QUEEN STREET / ULVERSTON / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 460013 / SD2854278288"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"House and public house, now public house. Possibly mid C19 with C18 remains. Painted scored render with slate roof and brick chimney. Altered 3-room plan. The main part of building is of 2 storeys and 3 bays. The windows have plain reveals and projecting painted sills. Those on the ground floor are now C20 casements with glazing bars. On the 1st floor they are sashed. A cart entrance in the left-hand bay has boarded doors and a timber lintel. The doorway, between the 2nd and 3rd bays, has a segmental head and is reached by 2 steps. To the right of the 1st bay there is a tall chimney. At the right is a further bay of 3 tall storeys, formerly a separate building. It has wide window openings with plain reveals, projecting sills, and casements with glazing bars. The ground-floor window opening is a later C20 alteration. Its gables rise above the adjoining buildings and have chimneys."


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BYD26.jpg (taken 11.4.2013)  

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