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Howard Arms, Brampton
Howard Arms
locality:-   Brampton
civil parish:-   Brampton (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   NY52986105
1Km square:-   NY5261
10Km square:-   NY56


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BMM77.jpg  Innsign, coat of arms.
(taken 11.8.2006)  
photograph
BMM78.jpg (taken 11.8.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 18 5) 
placename:-  Howard's Arms Inn
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.

evidence:-   road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802) 
placename:-  Howard's Arms
source data:-   Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802.
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page 321-322  "INN. Brampton, Howard's Arms."
item:-  JandMN : 228.1
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evidence:-   road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802) 
placename:-  Howard's Arms
source data:-   Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802.
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page 699-700  "INNS. ... Brampton, Howard Arms. ..."
item:-  JandMN : 228.2
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Howard Arms Hotel
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"HOWARD ARMS HOTEL / / FRONT STREET / BRAMPTON / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 77818 / NY5298961048"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Hotel, formerly coaching inn. Late C18. Incised painted stucco, chamfered plinth, flush quoins, stone dressings, slate roof with projecting eaves, yellow brick chimney stacks. 3 storeys, 2 bays. Entrance has C20 panelled doors, with plain surround and C20 projecting wooden hood porch. Tripartite sash windows with glazing bars have painted stone surrounds: C20 louvred shutters flank each window. Above entrance is carved inn sign of bunch of grapes, probably late C18 or early C19. Listing includes the 3 storey, 3 bay extension, in yard to rear (The Snooty Fox), with arched carriage passage, C20 recessed entrance, sash windows with glazing bars and plain stone surrounds. Listing does not include the very much altered stable block, enclosing stable yard to right. See advert Cumberland Pacquet, 21 May 1793. Richard Smirke, 1778-1815, architectural draughtsman and watercolourist, (brother of Sir Robert Smirke) died here: see Gentlemans Magazine, 1815, i, p477."


photograph
BMO29.jpg  Innsign, grapes.
(taken 11.8.2006)  

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