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Sun Inn, Kirkby Lonsdale
Sun Inn
Street:-   Market Street
locality:-   Kirkby Lonsdale
civil parish:-   Kirkby Lonsdale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   SD61097876
1Km square:-   SD6178
10Km square:-   SD67


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BPW67.jpg  An innsign of words alone ... not very exciting layout
(taken 2.1.2009)  
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BWS68.jpg (taken 10.6.2012)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Sun Inn
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"NUMBER 6 (SUN INN) AND BLOCK TO REAR NOW PART OF SUN INN / 6 / MARKET STREET / KIRKBY LONSDALE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75215 / SD6110878781"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"C17 inn with C18 block at rear together forming the whole east side of Church Street. Two storeys rising to three at rear. Rubble. Slate roof. Two chimneys. Gable to Market Street, under which first floor projects over pavement, carried on three roughly squared stove piers with abaci. Windows with thin stone surrounds and sills, sashed, except to Market Street where plain stone surrounds. On ground floor wooden architrave. Eared wooden architrave to doorcase. Door with six raised and fielded panels. Interior said to be altered."

evidence:-   old print:- Johnson c1900
placename:-  Sun Inn
source data:-   Print, engraving, In the Main Street, Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland, by RWT, published by Thomas Johnson, 30 Church Street, Blackburn, Lancashire, about 1900.
image  click to enlarge
JSN405.jpg
On p.13 in The Gossiping Guide to Kirkby Lonsdale. 
printed at lower right:-  "RWT"
item:-  Armitt Library : A1612.A5
Image © see bottom of page


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BPW66.jpg (taken 2.1.2009)  

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