Kildare Hotel
KILDARE HOTEL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1289321
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Kildare Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- KILDARE HOTEL, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1289321
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Kildare Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- KILDARE HOTEL, HIGH 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:
- KILDARE HOTEL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wigton
- National Grid Reference:
- NY2554848256
Details
NY 2548 WIGTON HIGH STREET
(West side) Wigton
14/71 Kildare Hotel
G.V. II
Hotel. Dated 1887 on lead rainwater heads. Red sandstone ashlar with string
course and cornice. Graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and ball
finials; ashlar chimney stacks. 3 storeys, 2 bays with cellar. Panelled door
under recessed segmental arch in round-headed surround with pilastered doorcase
and dentilled cornice. Console bracketed balcony above has decorative
wrought-iron railings under large French window. 2-storey canted bay window to
left with glazing bars. Decorative stonework parapet under 3-light gabled
dormer window with similar window to right. Was a private hotel until taken
over by the Central Control Board in 1916 and returned to private ownership in
1973. In a prominent position opposite the parish church and listed partly for
G.V. with that church.
Listing NGR: NY2554848256
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 72025
- 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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