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Queens Head, Tirril
Queens Head Hotel
locality:-   Tirril
civil parish:-   Sockbridge and Tirril (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   NY50282667
1Km square:-   NY5026
10Km square:-   NY52
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


photograph
BVL20.jpg  Innsign, Victoria.
(taken 1.10.2011)  
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BVL19.jpg (taken 1.10.2011)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Queens Head Hotel
item:-  date stone (1719); date stone (1735)
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"QUEENS HEAD HOTEL / / A592 / SOCKBRIDGE AND TIRRIL / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74579 / NY5026426682"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Public house. Dated and inscribed twice on reused lintel I.I. 1719 and also on stone set in front wall IS 1735, with C19 alterations. Painted incised stucco walls partly on large rubble plinth stones. Graduated greenslate roof with painted roughcast chimney stacks. Appears to have been 3 houses in a row; the left oldest one (dated 1735 but probably earlier). 2 storeys, 4 bays; the central one 2 storeys, 2 bays under common roof; the right higher one 2 storeys, 2 bays with rear extension. First part has blocked central doorway, now a sash window in painted stone surround, matching all of the other windows. Central part has C20 roughcast porch with reused lintel over glazed C20 doors. Sash windows with glazing bars in painted stone surrounds. Right part has similar central porch and doors with flanking side: lights. Broad sash windows in painted stone surrounds."

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