Roa Island Hotel

ROA ISLAND HOTEL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1283005
Date first listed:
06-May-1976
List Entry Name:
Roa Island Hotel
Statutory Address:
ROA ISLAND HOTEL

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1283005
Date first listed:
06-May-1976
Date of most recent amendment:
20-Dec-1993
List Entry Name:
Roa Island Hotel
Statutory Address 1:
ROA ISLAND HOTEL

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:
ROA ISLAND HOTEL

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

District:
Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SD 23223 64983

Details

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SD26SW ROA ISLAND 708-1/8/240 Roa Island Hotel 06/05/76 (Formerly Listed as: TOWER STREET, Roa Island Roa Island Hotel)

II

Public house. Mid-late C19. Scored stucco over stone, slate roof. 2 storeys and attic, 3:1-bay entrance front with 3-bay right return and 1-storey, 3-bay side wing to front left. Plinth. C20 casements with glazing bars. Bay 2 has 6-panel door and blocked overlight in ashlar doorcase with sunken-panelled jambs and twin consoles to triangular pediment. Windows to outer bays have sunken apron panels and architraves; sill band and aprons to taller 1st-floor windows. End bay on right is recessed and set on curve. Eaves cornice with blocking course. 2 inserted roof dormers; brick end stack on left; right end of roof is hipped with stack on return slope. Side wing on left (said to be converted from boathouse) has projecting sills to tall windows.

Listing NGR: SD2322364983

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
388356
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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