Fleece Inn and Yard Entrance
FLEECE INN AND YARD ENTRANCE, HIGHGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1145714
- Date first listed:
- 24-Apr-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Fleece Inn and Yard Entrance
- Statutory Address:
- FLEECE INN AND YARD ENTRANCE, HIGHGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1145714
- Date first listed:
- 24-Apr-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Fleece Inn and Yard Entrance
- Statutory Address 1:
- FLEECE INN AND YARD ENTRANCE, HIGHGATE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FLEECE INN AND YARD ENTRANCE, HIGHGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kendal
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 51472 92692
Details
SD 5192 NW KENDAL HIGHGATE (West side)
7/49 Fleece Inn & Yard 24-4-51 entrance (formerly listed as 14-4-69 Ye Olde Fleece Inn and Yard G.V. entrance) ) II Public House. Probably late C17/early C18. Previous list gives 1654 date; this date appears on panel in property adjoining to south which temporarily formed part of the Inn c1723. Later alterations. Timber-framed with jettied upper floors; wet-dashed. Dentilled eaves cornice. Graduated slate roof. 3 storeys, 2 bays. Passage through to rear on left with upper storeys carried across on wooden beams. C20 part-glazed double door to south return with wood-mullioned and transomed casement in squint to left and C18 sash above. East elevation has 5 wooden Tuscan columns (c1850 replacements of original posts) carrying bressummer. 5-light ground floor casement and two 3-light casements to each upper floor are C20 insertions out of keeping with the building's original character. Interior extensively remodelled in early 1980s.
Listing NGR: SD5147292692
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 75390
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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