Kings Arms Walter Willsons
KINGS ARMS, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1212982
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Kings Arms Walter Willsons
- Statutory Address:
- KINGS ARMS, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1212982
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Kings Arms Walter Willsons
- Statutory Address 1:
- KINGS ARMS, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address 2:
- WALTER WILLSONS, 5, MARKET PLACE
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:
- KINGS ARMS, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- WALTER WILLSONS, 5, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wigton
- National Grid Reference:
- NY2547548398
Details
NY 2548 WIGTON MARKET PLACE
(North side) Wigton
14/86 Kings Arms and No. 5
(Walter Willsons)
G.V. II
Public House and shop. Late C18 or early C19. Painted render with V-jointed
quoins on chamfered plinth. No 5 has painted stucco walls with eaves cornice
and angle pilasters. Common graduated greenslate roof with coped gables. 3
storeys, 4 bays; No. 5, 2 bays. Kings Arms has 8-panel round-headed door in
painted stone surround. Sash windows in round-headed painted stone surrounds.
No. 5 has C20 shop windows. Sash windows above in painted stone surrounds.
No. 5 included for G.V. with Kings Arms.
Listing NGR: NY2547548398
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 72041
- 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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