Queens Head Hotel

QUEENS HEAD HOTEL, B5320 (north side), CA10 2JF

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1145984
Date first listed:
06-Feb-1968
List Entry Name:
Queens Head Hotel
Statutory Address:
QUEENS HEAD HOTEL, B5320 (north side), CA10 2JF
Queens Head Hotel, Sockbridge
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Date:
1999-10-06
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1145984
Date first listed:
06-Feb-1968
List Entry Name:
Queens Head Hotel
Statutory Address 1:
QUEENS HEAD HOTEL, B5320 (north side), CA10 2JF

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
QUEENS HEAD HOTEL, B5320 (north side), CA10 2JF

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Sockbridge and Tirril
National Grid Reference:
NY 50264 26682

Details

This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23/02/2017

NY 5026,
15/177

SOCKBRIDGE AND TIRRIL
B5320 (north side),
Tirril,
Queens Head Hotel

(Formerly listed as being located on the A592)

6.02.68

GV

II

Public house. Dated and inscribed twice on reused lintel I.I. 1719 and also on
stone set in front wall IS 1735, with C19 alterations. Painted incised stucco
walls partly on large rubble plinth stones. Graduated greenslate roof with
painted roughcast chimney stacks. Appears to have been three houses in a row; the
left oldest one (dated 1735 but probably earlier). Two storeys, four bays; the
central one two storeys, two bays under common roof; the right higher one two storeys,
two bays with rear extension. First part has blocked central doorway, now a sash
window in painted stone surround, matching all of the other windows. Central
part has C20 roughcast porch with reused lintel over glazed C20 doors. Sash
windows with glazing bars in painted stone surrounds. Right part has similar
central porch and doors with flanking side: lights. Broad sash windows in
painted stone surrounds.


Listing NGR: NY5026426682

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
74579
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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