Royal Hotel
ROYAL HOTEL, 30, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318948
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL HOTEL, 30, MAIN STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318948
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYAL HOTEL, 30, 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:
- ROYAL HOTEL, 30, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kirkby Lonsdale
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 61134 78620
Details
MAIN STREET 1. 5166 (west side) No 30 (Royal Hotel) SD 6178 NW 5/60 12.2.62 II GV
2. Mid C18 inn, altered C19, incorporating a C17 house behind. Three storeys. Ashlar. Slate roof. Two chimneys. Chamfered rustication to ground floor. First floor sill band, dentil and modillion cornice and blocking course. Symmetrical facade to Main Street of five bays. Windows with sills and plain reveals, rustication splayed over those on ground floor. Sashed with all glazing bars. Central window first floor elongated downwards with small semicircular wrought iron balcony. Over this window mid C19 painted tablet with "Royal Hotel" framed by triglyphs and mutules. Porch with two Ionic columns and corresponding pilasters on wall, pulvinated frieze, modillion cornice and pediment. Extension to right hand side before 1855. Three storeys. Coursed rubble. One bay to Main Street, five to New Road. Corner rounded. Eaves cornice. Windows with plain stone surrounds, sashed with all glazing bars. Doorway to New Road with open pediment on consoles. In yard behind, older part retains one moulded lintel to second floor window. C17 doorway (now window) with moulded jambs and lintel enriched with curvilinear moulding and rosettes. Other windows box sashed with all glazing bars. Interior. Front room right hand side has semicircular extension through former external wall with mid C19 fireplace with pilaster strips. Large rectangular stair- case with two flight cantilevered stair mid C19. In lobby behind staircase two exposed beams and made up Jacobean chimneypiece of wood with two dissimilar Ionic pilasters. In west wing on first floor late C17 or early C18 two flight dogleg stair with closed string. Turned balusters, heavy moulded handrail, three turned newels with ball finials and one ball pendant. Part of the building was formerly a private residence called Jackson Hall. This became the Rose and Crown Inn, but New Road was driven across the northern part of the property after a fire in 1820. A visit of Queen Adelaide in 1840 occasioned the change of name and probably the additions. (Annals).
Listing NGR: SD6113478620
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 75173
- 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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