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Romney House, Kendal
Romney House
Street:-   Milnthorpe Road
locality:-   Kendal
civil parish:-   Kendal (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   SD51629183
1Km square:-   SD5191
10Km square:-   SD59
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


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BXZ19.jpg (taken 14.3.2013)  
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BXZ20.jpg  Plaque.
(taken 14.3.2013)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Romney House Hotel
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"ROMNEY HOUSE HOTEL / 26 / MILNTHORPE ROAD / KENDAL / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75463 / SD5161691818"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"House, now Hotel; early/mid C18. Coursed rubble, rendered to front, with rusticated corner pilasters on plinth; dentilled eaves cornice. Graduated slate roof with stone end chimneys. 3 storeys, 3 bays. Part-glazed door and rectangular fanlight in surround with cornice carried on tapered pilasters. Narrow sash to right and 2 sashes to left; 3 sashes to each floor above. Sign hangs from wrought-iron bracket projecting above door. Late C19 painted, circular, cast-iron plaque (between ground and 1st floors) carries an inscription in raised sans serif lettering: HERE LIVED FOR A TIME AND DIED GEORGE ROMNEY PORTRAIT PAINTER .BORN AT DALTON IN FURNESS 1734. DIED 1802."

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