Greyhound Hotel With Milestone and Mounting Block
GREYHOUND HOTEL WITH MILESTONE AND MOUNTING BLOCK, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159149
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Greyhound Hotel With Milestone and Mounting Block
- Statutory Address:
- GREYHOUND HOTEL WITH MILESTONE AND MOUNTING BLOCK, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159149
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Greyhound Hotel With Milestone and Mounting Block
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREYHOUND HOTEL WITH MILESTONE AND MOUNTING BLOCK, MAIN STREET
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:
- GREYHOUND HOTEL WITH MILESTONE AND MOUNTING BLOCK, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shap
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 56665 14244
Details
SHAP MAIN STREET NY 5614/5 (East side), Shap
27/156 Greyhound Hotel with milestone & mounting 6.2.68 block
GV II
Coaching Inn, now hotel. Various datestones recorded: Kitchen fireplace inscribed August the 27 1680 with initials R. & W.A.; bar fireplace 1696 with initials A.W.; on panel over carriage arch 1703 with initials A.W. & W.W. & bas-relief of a greyhound. Later additions and alterations. Initials are those of Whinfell family whose crest was a greyhound. Wet-dashed rubble on plinth. Graduated slate roof with stone ridge. 2 storeys, 7 bays overall; wing (1680) projects to rear. 4-bay 1696 addition: Panelled door in open,flat-roofed porch with cast-iron columns; recumbent sculpture of greyhound on roof probably by Thomas Bland of Reagill. 2 tripartite sashes to each floor on left and one above. Symmetrical 1703 extension to right: Central segment-headed carriage arch now part-blocked with fixed window; sash to each floor on either side. All windows with glazing bars in stone surrounds. Rendered mid and end chimneys. Milestone with shaped head, to right of entrance, is probably mid C18 for Turnpike. Painted black with lettering picked out in white: Kendal X6/Penrith Xl/Miles (sic). Stone mounting block to right of former carriage arch. Cottages adjoining south return not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NY5666514244
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 74171
- 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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