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| Sun Inn, Dent | ||
| Sun Inn | ||
| Street:- | Main Street | |
| locality:- | Dent | |
| civil parish:- | Dent (formerly Yorkshire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | inn | |
| coordinates:- | SD70478701 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD7087 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD78 | |
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 BYK96.jpg (taken 31.5.2013)  BYK97.jpg Innsign, the sun. (taken 31.5.2013) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Yrk 64 13) placename:- Sun Hotel |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Sun Inn |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "SUN INN / / MAIN STREET / DENT / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484421 / SD7047487012" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Inn, now public house. Probably mid C18 (described as "newly erected" in 1758); extended and altered. White-painted roughly-coursed rubble with quoins, stone slate roof. Single-depth 2-unit plan with short extension to left, large rear wing to north half and outshuts in the angle." "EXTERIOR: 2 low storeys, 1:3 windows. The 3-window main range has a square-headed doorway offset slightly right, a 4-pane sash above the doorway, and two square 20-pane windows on each floor, all with painted stone surrounds; an old square signboard to the left at 1st floor, with a radiant smiling sun over curved lettering "BEST ALE UNDER THE SUN", and 3-step mounting block near the right-hand corner. The 1-window extension to the left has one square sash on each floor (4 and 20 panes, respectively). Ridge chimney at junction, gable chimney to right. Rear: gabled 2-storey rear wing with corbelled chimney; outshuts to right, with later extensions." "INTERIOR: 2 axial beams in left bay, 3 lateral beams in right-hand bay; C18 dog-legged staircase in rear wing, with closed string, small turned balusters, and fielded panelling." |
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 BYK98.jpg Mounting block. (taken 31.5.2013) |
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